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Prostitute strolling by moonlight
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The woman carrying the rolled straw mat is a tsujigimi, one of the lowest ranks of prostitutes. Referring to the heavy white makeup, the verse by Oshun Hitotose, a female poet, reads, "Like reflections in the rice paddies; the faces of streetwalkers in the darkness are exposed by the autumn moonlight." |
