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- n. a high-status courtesan
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“Shimabara used to be a licensed quarter where women known as oiran and tayu courtesans, high-class prostitutes plied their trade, though they were accomplished in the traditional arts as well.”
“Centered on the lives of the oiran, elite prostitutes working in official red light districts of the Edo era, Sakuran has been a surprise hit with Japan's style-conscious young women," writes Bruce Wallace.”
“Anna Tsuchiya plays an oiran (courtesan), and her outfits are not those of geisha (artisan), period or otherwise.”
GreenCine Daily: Midnight Eye. History, an interview, reviews.
“Although these vistas show all manner of Nighttown denizens and visitors, the stars in each case are the oiran, the highest-class prostitutes, who could earn their bosses the equivalent of thousands of dollars by entertaining a single client.”
“Tayu and oiran worked under contracts of indenture and were confined to the district until their period of servitude was over.”
“In the process, the perception of the role of the oiran (courtesan) and the geisha (entertainer) became intertwined and confused.”
“A young oiran also underwent a ritual called a “mizuage” but hers consisted of being ceremoniously deflowered by a patron who had paid handsomely for the privilege.”
“She had no serious trouble and, at the age of seventeen, rose to the exalted station of oiran.”
The Miko
“Ikan had no status save that of tayu oiran, which, of course, was meaningless outside the Yoshiwara.”
The Miko
“In this capacity she was constantly busy yet she always found time to observe and to learn from her observations, often imitating the motions and delicate swirls of the oiran early in the mornings before, exhausted, she fell on her futon.”
The Miko
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