THE NIGHTLESS CITY

不夜城

OR THE “HISTORY OF THE YOSHIWARA YŪKWAKU”

By J. E. DE BECKER

Twenty Years a Resident of Japan

“Virtuous men have said, both in poetry and classic works, that houses of debauch, for women of pleasure and for street-walkers, are the worm-eaten spots of cities and towns. But these are necessary evils, and if they be forcibly abolished, men of unrighteous principles will become like ravelled thread.”

73rd section of the “Legacy of Ieyasu,” (the first Tokugawa Shōgun.)

With Numerous Illustrations

Third Edition Revised

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BY THE AUTHOR.

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