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Faced with a considerable and largely unregulated sex trade in the city, Kawamura consulted his staff and other local officials as to how to restrict or eliminate prostitution in the city. Ultimately, he compromised, recognizing the importance of prostitution to the economic viability of the city, and rejecting suggestions to restrict it to a single licensed quarters, or to attempt to eliminate it entirely. Instead, in an effort to endear himself as a "compassionate" and "benevolent" administrator over the people of this city, Kawamura had existing pleasure districts officially designated, and categorized according to legal categories extant in other shogunal cities. Several districts became home to "teahouses" (''tomari jaya'') employing "tea-serving girls" (''chakumi onna''), while others became home to "sailors' inns" (''funayado''), staffed by "laundry girls" (''sentaku onna''). [[Sumptuary regulations]] were also put into place, but little action was taken against prostitutes or establishments operating outside of the official districts.

Faced with a considerable and largely unregulated sex trade in the city, Kawamura consulted his staff and other local officials as to how to restrict or eliminate prostitution in the city. Ultimately, he compromised, recognizing the importance of prostitution to the economic viability of the city, and rejecting suggestions to restrict it to a single licensed quarters, or to attempt to eliminate it entirely. Instead, in an effort to endear himself as a "compassionate" and "benevolent" administrator over the people of this city, Kawamura had existing pleasure districts officially designated, and categorized according to legal categories extant in other shogunal cities. Several districts became home to "teahouses" (''tomari jaya'') employing "tea-serving girls" (''chakumi onna''), while others became home to "sailors' inns" (''funayado''), staffed by "laundry girls" (''sentaku onna''). [[Sumptuary regulations]] were also put into place, but little action was taken against prostitutes or establishments operating outside of the official districts.

By [[1854]], he had been assigned Osaka ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 653.</ref>

He was reassigned from ''Niigata bugyô'' to ''Sakai bugyô'' in [[1852]], and then Osaka ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' in [[1854]]. The following year, he was reassigned to the position of ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]''.

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==References==

==References==

*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 125-131.

*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 125-131.

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