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*''Japanese'': 湯女 ''(yuna)''
''Yuna'' were bathhouse girls whose official job was bathing and massaging clients, but who served as unlicensed prostitutes outside the [[Yoshiwara]] from roughly [[1630]] until [[1657]].
The ''yuna'' were officially banned by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1648]], but this did not put an end to the phenomenon. It was only in 1657, due to pressure from the Yoshiwara in an effort to eliminate the competition, that the ''yuna'' disappeared. Many came to work within the Yoshiwara as teahouse waitresses, called ''[[sancha]]''.
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==References==
*"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/index.php?page=1 Arts of the Bedchamber: Japanese Shunga]." Honolulu Museum of Arts, Exhibition Website. Accessed 10 December 2012.
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
''Yuna'' were bathhouse girls whose official job was bathing and massaging clients, but who served as unlicensed prostitutes outside the [[Yoshiwara]] from roughly [[1630]] until [[1657]].
The ''yuna'' were officially banned by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1648]], but this did not put an end to the phenomenon. It was only in 1657, due to pressure from the Yoshiwara in an effort to eliminate the competition, that the ''yuna'' disappeared. Many came to work within the Yoshiwara as teahouse waitresses, called ''[[sancha]]''.
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==References==
*"[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/index.php?page=1 Arts of the Bedchamber: Japanese Shunga]." Honolulu Museum of Arts, Exhibition Website. Accessed 10 December 2012.
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]