Number
#16
Date
9/1871
Title (Kanji)
山谷 八百善
Title (Rōmaji)
San’ya Yaozen
Description
San’ya, bordering on the Yoshiwara, has had a long history, since the Edo era, as a small community of the lowest class. In addition to day laborers, prostitutes, vagabonds, and the like, low-caste workers such as butchers, tanners, leatherworkers and the like, were also forced to live in this undesirable region; the predominantly Buddhist authorities, who found their work with dead animals repugnant, exiled them here. It has retained its association with lower class workers to this day; in the 1970s it grew into Tokyo’s largest day-laborer quarter. Collaborator: Toshitsugu
Additional information
| Year Published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Size | Ōban |
| Signed | Unknown |
| Seals | Unread |
| Subjects | Architecture, Stone lantern, Women |
| Editions | First |
| Publisher | Unknown |
| Block Carvers | Unknown |
