Japanese Yoshiwara women whose life expectancy was about 23 years.

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(1)a huge brothel in Edo, Japan
(2)Yu-nyeo = A woman who used to sell her body
(3)a woman of the highest rank

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(1)In Yoshiwara, sexually transmitted infections, which can be considered the 0th priority of prostitution, went beyond vulnerable, and if a woman suddenly died of sexually transmitted diseases or was found, she was kicked out of the citadel. If there was no place to go, she would go out of the city, float raft, and prostitute by the river, it would be the worst.

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(1)The deceased woman did not hold a proper funeral, wrote “women and women = prostitutes,” and roughly wrapped it on a straw mat and left it abandoned or buried near the river or temple. There were women who died and abandoned on the side of the road who died suddenly in a disease or accident, or Yotaka, but there were also women who were executed or beaten for punishment in violation of Yoshiwara’s commandments.

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(1)They don’t hold funerals because they violated the commandments, but they don’t hold funerals on the streets or in front of the temple.
(2)Abandoning means abandoning the women in the Chuksaengdo Island because they will have trouble treating them as humans, which means that they treated the women as animals, not humans.
(3)Usually, when the women died in Yoshiwara, they were thrown out in front of the name of Jokanji temple. The monks of Jokanji cremated the bodies of the women and prayed for their souls. If you go into the temple, you can see the remains of the women, and there are more than 2,000 of them.

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(1)The average life expectancy of women is about 23 years.
(2)She became a formal woman at the age of 15, but even if everyone had a short life expectancy due to medical problems in the past, she was seriously short as a woman who was executed for sexually transmitted diseases or for violating regulations.

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(1)There were a lot.
(2)This was the same after the Meiji Restoration, so in 1893 Yoshiwara,
(3)There were over 9,000 women, many of whom suffered from syphilis.

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(1)Modern Japan, which beautifies this Yoshiwara woman, is…

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