Shinmachi
Sign in to saveShinmachi (新町) was a yūkaku (pleasure quarter) in Osaka, built between 1615 and 1623, and operating until its destruction in World War II. It was situated roughly two kilometers southwest of Nakanoshima. Today, it is mostly a tourist attraction and historical site.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 35 inbound references to Shinmachi, and connects out to Kyoto, Osaka and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Geography of Osaka, Red-light districts in Japan and Sexuality in Japan.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- External links
Shinmachi (新町) was a yūkaku (pleasure quarter) in Osaka, built between 1615 and 1623, and operating until its destruction in World War II. It was situated roughly two kilometers southwest of Nakanoshima. Today, it is mostly a tourist attraction and historical site.
Throughout the Edo period (1603–1868), there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka. The Tokugawa shogunate attempted to control this by restricting prostitution to designated city districts, known as yūkaku. These districts were Shimabara in Kyōto (est. 1640), Shinmachi in Osaka (est. 1624–1644) and Yoshiwara in Edo (est. 1617). These restrictions and controls did not derive from a moral opposition to prostitution, but out of a desire to compartmentalize certain types of activity within the cities. Kabuki and jōruri theatres, and other related entertainment establishments were similarly controlled.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shinmachi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations