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*''Japanese'': 深川 ''(fukagawa)''
Fukagawa is a neighborhood of [[Tokyo]], which was home to a prominent unlicensed [[prostitution]] district during the [[Edo period]]. In addition to prostitution, the area was known particularly for its ''haori geisha'', also known as ''tatsumi geisha'', [[geisha]] who dressed in a masculine mode,<ref name=mostow36>Joshua Mostow, "Wakashu as a Third Gender and Gender Ambiguity through the Edo Period," in Mostow and Asato Ikeda (eds.), ''A Third Gender'', Royal Ontario Museum (2016), 36.</ref> and may have been the site of the emergence of the first female geisha in Edo (as geisha was originally a male profession).<ref>"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2013/index.php?page=104&language=&maxImageHeight=470&headerTop=0&headerHeight=109&footerTop=579&bw=1366&sh=0&refreshed=refreshed#.VHwTG8mTLqM Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 1 Dec 2014.</ref>
By 1780, the Fukagawa district contained seven unlicensed areas within it.<ref name=mostow36/>
In [[1871]], the brothels of the Fukagawa and [[Shin-Shimabara]] districts were obliged to relocate to the [[Yoshiwara]].
The geisha houses & brothels did not occupy all of Fukagawa, however. The neighborhood was also home to a ''kakae-yashiki'' (secondary [[daimyo yashiki|daimyô mansion]]) of the [[Kaga han|Kaga domain]],<ref>Gallery labels, "Upper, Middle, and Lower Residences of Kaga Domain," National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12591023803/sizes/h/]</ref> and to a number of Buddhist temples; notable figures including [[Mamiya Rinzo|Mamiya Rinzô]] and [[Iwai Hanshiro VI|Iwai Hanshirô VI]] are buried in the neighborhood.<ref>Plaques on-site at Mamiya's grave, 2-7-8 Hirano, Kôtô-ku, Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/19025158250/sizes/l]; "[http://www.kabuki21.com/hanshiro6.php Iwai Hanshirô VI]." Kabuki21.com.</ref>
Fukagawa is a neighborhood of [[Tokyo]], which was home to a prominent unlicensed [[prostitution]] district during the [[Edo period]]. In addition to prostitution, the area was known particularly for its ''haori geisha'', also known as ''tatsumi geisha'', [[geisha]] who dressed in a masculine mode,<ref name=mostow36>Joshua Mostow, "Wakashu as a Third Gender and Gender Ambiguity through the Edo Period," in Mostow and Asato Ikeda (eds.), ''A Third Gender'', Royal Ontario Museum (2016), 36.</ref> and may have been the site of the emergence of the first female geisha in Edo (as geisha was originally a male profession).<ref>"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2013/index.php?page=104&language=&maxImageHeight=470&headerTop=0&headerHeight=109&footerTop=579&bw=1366&sh=0&refreshed=refreshed#.VHwTG8mTLqM Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 1 Dec 2014.</ref>
By 1780, the Fukagawa district contained seven unlicensed areas within it.<ref name=mostow36/>
In [[1871]], the brothels of the Fukagawa and [[Shin-Shimabara]] districts were obliged to relocate to the [[Yoshiwara]].
The geisha houses & brothels did not occupy all of Fukagawa, however. The neighborhood was also home to a ''kakae-yashiki'' (secondary [[daimyo yashiki|daimyô mansion]]) of the [[Kaga han|Kaga domain]],<ref>Gallery labels, "Upper, Middle, and Lower Residences of Kaga Domain," National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12591023803/sizes/h/]</ref> and to a number of Buddhist temples; notable figures including [[Mamiya Rinzo|Mamiya Rinzô]] and [[Iwai Hanshiro VI|Iwai Hanshirô VI]] are buried in the neighborhood.<ref>Plaques on-site at Mamiya's grave, 2-7-8 Hirano, Kôtô-ku, Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/19025158250/sizes/l]; "[http://www.kabuki21.com/hanshiro6.php Iwai Hanshirô VI]." Kabuki21.com.</ref>
