Monumento
Yoshiwara Benzaiten and Earthquake Memorial
- Lun
- 09:00–16:00
- Mar
- 09:00–16:00
- Mer
- 09:00–16:00
- Gio
- 09:00–16:00
- Ven
- 09:00–16:00
- Sab
- 09:00–16:00
- Dom
- 09:00–16:00
- Orari
- Exceptions: 1 January 00:00–18:00; 2–7 January 09:00–17:00.
- Prezzo
- JPY 0 — free admission.
- Come visitare
- The site is in Hanazono Park and is a detached precinct of Yoshiwara Shrine, about a 1-minute walk from Yoshiwara Shrine. The grounds contain memorial structures and a worship hall.
- Orari
- Ingresso libero
- Orari
- Circa 15 min
Perché vale la deviazione
This was once the site of the quarter’s flower-shaped Benten Pond. During the fires following the Great Kanto Earthquake on September 1, 1923, about 490 people, including many women from Yoshiwara, died here; the statues and memorial stones sustain both annual remembrance and later tales of female apparitions around the former pond.
Yoshiwara Benzaiten and Earthquake Memorial marks the site of a tragic event during the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. It features statues and memorial stones that honor the memory of those who perished, with tales of apparitions adding to its mystique.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.
100 m
Ohtori Shrine
The shrine’s November Tori-no-Ichi market prospered partly because of neighboring Yoshiwara; on festival days the quarter reportedly opened an additional gate to the crowds. Hiroshige famously pictured the festival through the barred window of a courtesan’s room, contrasting public celebration outside with enclosure inside.
150 m
Yoshiwara Shrine
This small shrine combines five Inari shrines that once guarded the entrance and corners of the enclosed pleasure quarter; Yoshiwara Benzaiten was later added as a sixth deity. Courtesans prayed here for protection and professional success, making it one of the few surviving institutions shaped by the women of Yoshiwara themselves.
250 m
Nakanomachi Street
This ordinary-looking road follows Yoshiwara’s former central ceremonial avenue. Courtesan processions advanced along it in towering footwear, while temporary cherry trees were planted for spring displays—an elaborate theatrical landscape erected inside a district whose women were tightly confined.
300 m
Yoshiwara Park and the Daimonjiro Site
The park occupies the former grounds of Daimonjiro, one of late Yoshiwara’s great high-ranking brothels. Its open footprint gives an unusual sense of how enormous a prestigious establishment could be before fires, earthquake destruction and postwar redevelopment erased the buildings.
400 m
Ichiyo Memorial Museum
The museum preserves Ichiyo’s draft of “Takekurabe,” her shop ledger and a model reconstructing the neighborhood beside Yoshiwara. The model makes the vanished landscape unusually legible: her tenement faced toward the quarter’s ditch, walls and emergency gate.
400 m
Gojukken Road and the Koshodo Site
The surviving S-shaped approach concealed the interior of Yoshiwara from travelers on the embankment. Here the young publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo opened Koshodo, selling and publishing guidebooks that catalogued the quarter and eventually turning Yoshiwara gossip, fashion and personalities into mass media.
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