Sandakan no. 8 brothel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yamazaki Tomoko (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 52-60 |
| Publication date | 1975-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1975.10406392 |
| OpenAlex | W2328411127 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Karayukisan is a word derived from two longer words which mean “one who has traveled to China,” but means itself an overseas prostitute who, from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the First World War, had left behind her homeland of Japan and gone abroad to sell herself to foreigners; such prostitutes went not only to China and Siberia in the north and to the countries of Southeast Asia in the south but also to India and Africa. They came from Japan as a whole, but especially, it is said, from Kyushu: from the island of Amakusa and the Shimabara Peninsula. That most shared this origin was due, basically, as I shall explain later, to the poverty of these regions, whose character derived from both natural and social causes. Indeed, these prostitutes and the poor peasant women of Shimabara and Amakusa undoubtedly represent two branches of the same tree
Ancient history · Archaeology · Character (mathematics · China · Ethnology · Geography · Homeland · Peasant · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Poverty · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Women's Voices
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore
Retrieving Prostitutes' Live Source Materials and an Approach for Writing the History of the Ah Ku and Karayuki-San of Singapore
The Japanese Community in Malaya before the Pacific War
Prostitution and the Politics of Venereal Disease
The evolution of Japanese women's historiography
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2022 (45) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |