The Structure of Yukaku and its Social Base

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370795
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: National Museum of Japanese History (2014-2015); The Iida City Institute of Historical Research (2013)
• Principal Investigator: YOKOYAMA Yuriko 国立歴史民俗博物館, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 教授 (20458657)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MAKIHARA Shigeyuki 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (20375520)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 新吉原遊廓 / 芸娼妓解放令 / 遊女 / 江戸 / 近代化 / 身分 / 社会的結合 / ジェンダー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examines the structure and the transfiguration of the Red-light district so-called Shinyoshiwara Yukaku in the city of Edo through the dynamic relations of gender and city. In the Yukaku some brothels which owed their official duties controlled thousands of the prostitutes who were under repression and servitude by private contract as well as by the status system. As a result the abolition of the status system in the Meiji Restoration, the Yukaku changed into the modern system that suppressed prostitutes. As stated above, this research insists the viewpoint of gender and city is indispensable to the study of the prostitution in Edo.

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