Selling women [electronic resource] : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan / Amy Stanley ; foreword by Matthew H. Sommer.

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of "...

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