<Articles>A Study of Gion and the Adopted Daughters who were Separated from Their Parents for Life in the Late Edo Period (Special Issue : Gender)

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  • <論説>江戸時代後期の祇園と一生不通養子娘 (特集 : ジェンダー)
  • 江戸時代後期の祇園と一生不通養子娘
  • エド ジダイ コウキ ノ ギオン ト イッショウ フツウ ヨウシムスメ

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Abstract

This study focusing on girls who came to Gion in Kyoto during the late Edo period under a lifelong adoption contract (isshōfutsū yōshi 一生不通養子) reveals the lives of these women and the brothels they lived in Gion. After pointing out the inadequacy of historical records in the study of Gion, the first section provides an overview of the historical development of Gionʼs brothels. With regard to the administrative response to Gion, studies of which have previously focused only on the aspect of controlling public morals, I clarified the measures that focused on the economic policy of urban development. In the second section, I employed the Gion-chō documents in the Kyoto University Museum, as well as written testimonies, published lists of prostitutes and geisha, and other documents related to the Gion area to reveal the reality of the lifelong adoption contract. Furthermore, in the third section, I examined the geisha apprenticeship certificate (geisha bōkō shōmon 芸者奉公証文) and the prostitute apprenticeship certificate (yūjo bōkō shōmon 遊女奉公証文) in order to explore what became of the girls who had come to Gion. I then illustrated the diverse routes of these girls lives, revealing the cases of women who continued to live in Gion by continuing to work as geisha or by taking over a teahouse, as well as women who went to rural brothels.

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  • 史林

    史林 104 (1), 37-77, 2021-01-31

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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