Moon of the pleasure quarters

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Moon of the pleasure quarters (Kuruwa no tsuki)

 

March 1886

A courtesan and her child attendant watch cherry blossoms fall to the ground at night in the Yoshiwara, the government-licensed prostitution district in Edo.

 

 

  

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Taiso Yoshitoshi

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