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Though natural hot springs, and the bathing facilities associated with them, could be found farther afield, it seems that up until the Edo period, Kyoto and the so-called "Home Provinces" or [[Kinai]] were the chief center of activity for public and private baths. Lee Butler notes that it was only when the political/military action of the [[Sengoku period]] came to be more focused on Kyoto after [[1568]] that the samurai class engagement in bathing begins to appear in written sources.

Though natural hot springs, and the bathing facilities associated with them, could be found farther afield, it seems that up until the Edo period, Kyoto and the so-called "Home Provinces" or [[Kinai]] were the chief center of activity for public and private baths. Lee Butler notes that it was only when the political/military action of the [[Sengoku period]] came to be more focused on Kyoto after [[1568]] that the samurai class engagement in bathing begins to appear in written sources.

[[Oda Nobunaga]]'s [[Azuchi castle]] did not include bathing facilities, but [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] included a steam bath in his [[Jurakutei]], which was then moved to [[Nishi Honganji]] when the Jurakutei was demolished.

[[Oda Nobunaga]]'s [[Azuchi castle]] did not include bathing facilities, but [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] included a steam bath in his [[Jurakutei]], which was then moved to [[Nishi Honganji]] when the Jurakutei was demolished. Baths were popular enough among the samurai class by this point that during [[Korean Invasions|Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea in the 1590s]], his generals built baths in the military camps; [[Kato Kiyomasa|Katô Kiyomasa]] is known to have even built one on a ship. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], likewise, had baths built in many of his residences; one was even made of mulberry wood brought back from Mexico by the merchant [[Tanaka Shosuke|Tanaka Shôsuke]] in 1610.

==Edo Period==

==Edo Period==

By the beginning of the Edo period, however, bathing had begun to be associated directly with the practice of getting clean, i.e. removing physical dirt or grime from one's body. As early as 1603,

The urbanization and growth of the commoner class of townspeople (''[[chonin|chônin]]'') or merchants saw the dramatic expansion of bathhouses and bathing on a commoner/popular level.

*''[[yuna]]''

One popular phenomenon often seen in ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' prints which emerged in the Edo period was the "bathhouse girl," or ''[[yuna]]'' 湯女.

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