If anyone is interested in what this piece it, she's an oiran. Oiran were high class courtesans in the pleasure quarters, while their lives and careers were tragically short the influence they had on Japanese culture and still continue to have even today with various movies and shows (not to mention traditional plays like Kabuki) depicting them as characters shows how much of an impact they made through history, so much so they were known as castle destroyers #history #culture #oiran

The picture shows an Oiran, which was the highest-ranking courtesan in the Edo Period.

Oiran were not classic prostitutes as we know them today. You could not book them directly, but had to go through a middleman. You had to book three highly paid meetings where there was no physical contact, but you were only judged by her from a distance.

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