The Nightless City

The Nightless CityWhen The Nightless City was first published in 1899, it was deemed taboo in polite circles. It is now considered a valuable historical documentalbeit still provocativeas a pioneering sociological study of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku: Tokyo's infamous red light district where the giving of pleasure became both a tradition and a business. A consequence of old Japan's polygamous family system (where men had multiple wives who bore them many children), the

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