The Yoshiwara is not marked on modern-day maps. The old neighborhood names survived until 1966, when new ones were introduced, severing the last tangible link with the past. Not all is lost, however.

It is 400 years since the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters were established in Edo (now Tokyo). The area changed greatly through its history, but its importance to the development of Japan’s ...

True, this imagined place had real-world equivalents, by far the most famous of which was Edo’s New Yoshiwara (the old Yoshiwara burned down in 1657). But pleasure districts, wrote Screech ...

A fire which started in a room on the third floor of the Mikado-ro at number 20, Nichome, Edomachi, Yoshiwara (in Tokyo), about 11 o'clock Sunday morning swept an area four miles long and a mile ...