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I imagine that this was a terribly lonely existence for these Courtesans, even while being surrounded by all of these clients who claimed to love or even just care for the Courtesans. Sometimes offering a caricature of affection can be a very cruel thing to do to somebody. It makes me wonder what the rate of suicide was among Courtesans in the Edo period.
Did you forget the last video where the guy literally sold his high position in Edo for his courtesan and got in trouble with the court? If anything actually loving them was the problem, not the opposite
@@nonamepasserbya6658 That's nice, but life for most hookers, back then and now, is not the same thing as "Pretty Woman." And especially in a culture like Japan's that has traditionally placed so much value on honor and saving face, it wouldn't exactly go over well if word got around that a man abandoned his family/wife and/or rescued some whore from a brothel. Johns don't go to whores for love, then or now.
That was the single funniest sponsorship segment I have ever seen. I was actually laughing aloud and had my housemates staring at me in confusion. Loved it!!
I find these videos fascinating. I can't help but think of how for seemingly all of human history, men have been obsessed with women and our sexuality, and that obsession leads to systems that encourage objectification, sex trafficking, early deaths, etc. Fascinating and very sad. Grateful to live during a period where women have more choices (in general) and less of us have to consider selling ourselves in such a manner to survive. I hope the day comes where this is never needed for women, and only those that are truly interested in living in such a manner do so.
As far as biology is concerned, literally nothing matters aside from reproducing. Living, dying, accomplishments, morality, ethics, all irrelevant compared to just making children. After all, the only people who's genes continue are those who have children. That's the kind of personality that evolution creates. When you account for that, and the fact that men and women have two completely different reproductive goals, it becomes pretty clear *why* society has developed as it has. For men, having as many children as possible with as many women as possible with as little investment as possible would result in more children surviving and continuing on. Comparatively, for women, having as many children as possible with a single man who is heavily invested in only her and her children makes much more sense, as women are extremely vulnerable when carrying children, and feeding and raising them requires significant energy and time expenditures. All of this being said, I don't think I need to tell you which strategy is more ethical and appropriate, especially in the modern day. But unfortunately, the difference in male and female psychology when it comes to sexuality is just built into our biology. History reflects this very clearly. The good news is that, as we become more advanced as a society and we, hopefully, acknowledge these differences and their motivations, we can work to overcome what our biology tells us to do and start to choose what our minds know is correct and moral.
@@KeterMalkuthyour comment has good points but there are some big issues with your reasoning, particularly on the men's side. Human males absolutely do benefit from spending resources on their own children. Unless a species has lots of offspring that develop quickly or very competent lone mothers, the strategy you mentioned doesn't work. Usually, only one human is born at a time and it takes YEARS for it to do anything useful. We survived by being social and cooperative bc that's what works for our children. In this situation, the man that spend the least time taking care of other people's offspring and instead focus on his own is the one that succeeds. That's one of the main reasons why so many patriarchal societies treated women as property of their husband: it was a way to almost guarantee the offspring is theirs. It's also why female cheating was often punishable by death while male cheating was considered normal. Males still get tons of variety in their gene pool by cheating, but females don't. So yeah, the idea this model benefits women is bullshit. It's made by men, for men. No wonder some of the most violently misogynistic people nowadays hate divorce so much lol
@@DragonNya69hehe That's true, I spoke perhaps too broadly for the sake of making my point regarding the biological drivers clear. Rather than encouraging a complete lack of investment on the part of men, it encourages men to be more liberal with their investment in several women, whereas women have incentive to be more invested in a single partner. The primary facet I wanted to illustrate is that the behaviors that biology encourage are, to some degree, directly contrary between men and women. What behaviors benefit women and what behaviors benefit men, from the perspective of solely continuing their genes, while similar, are noticeably different. Obviously, being loyal to your partner and treating them right and investing yourself in one person is the correct choice in the modern day. Our mortality rates are significantly reduced so there's very little imbalance between our gender ratios, we all implicitly understand the emotional betrayal associated with cheating, and we all know children deserve to have two dedicated parents. However, biologically, we're not all 100% wired to adhere to that goal. By acknowledging that, we can find solutions and work around what hormones and instincts tell us to do.
Since you mentioned love can ruin them & showing Komurasaki from One Piece reminds me that her name might come from Miura-ya Komurasaki which was a real life Oiran from the Edo period with a tragic love story that is immortalized in Kitagawa Utamaro's painting “The Lovers Miura-ya Komurasaki & Shirai Gonpachi” where Gonpachi committed crimes to buy her freedom but it caused his death which made the her committed suicide after learning of his death
That was, hands down, one of the best and most hilarious promos I’ve ever heard lmao And Im totally using “aggressively broke” from now on. It spoke to my soul lmao
This is one of the most interesting as well as entertaining channels on this platform! There's so many beautiful and fascinating artwork and I love the narrators humour too 😊 Sometimes I listen to this with my soon to be husband. My soon to be husband is half Finnish 🇫🇮 half Japanese 🇯🇵 and also, one of my favourite movies of all time is Takahashi Mike's Imprint. I'm so happy that I subscribed 😊 Thank you 🙏🫶 and greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Always happy to sit out the sponsoring segments made by Linfamy, is guaranteed entertaining! And love the tiny cookie crumbles on the face of the tayu holding a kawaii cup😁
A CZcamsr called "asked Shojo" interviewed a Tayu. There are three I think in Kyoto left. They weren't prostitutes but the highest rank of geisha. She seemed annoyed about the prostitute thing lol. But I just wanted to mention that.
You have to remember that the modern Taiyu is not like the historical Taiyu as the former is a product of legal fiction lobbied for by geishas at the time the 1957 anti-Prostitution law was enacted since the Taiyu are considered "Prostitutes" by the letter of that law...
Never thought a history youtuber had a proper sexy personnality w/o really showing themselves before. Also the drawings and the narration, I don't have am epic description for it but they work perfectly. Thanks Linfamy
Its amazing how the second I get super into looking at the history behind oiran and tayuu, Linfamy uploads a ton of videos on the subject. I do have one question though: I understand that tayuu and oiran are different, tayuu being pre 1750 and oiran being post (at least in yoshiwara). But how were they simular, and how were they different? Based on my research, their appearances differed in a few different ways, and oiran were, while still trained in the arts, much less trained than tayuu. Not to mention all the different types of rank within the oiran umbrella and ranks beneath the tayuu. It gets very confusing very quick.
When I was a teenager, I was in love with Japan. It was a magical place, I thought. I was enamored with ninja and shinto, and pretty much everything. Naturally, I wanted to learn more about this wonderful place. That was my mistake. The more I learned, the less magical Japan became. It was a country like every other country in the world, complete with problems, unfortunate history, ordinary people, and no magical anime fantasy. Oh, to have that ignorant bliss of youth again. Reality bites. I still love Japan, for what it is, not what imagine. This video-all your videos-remind me of that. I feel for the human beings of Japan's historical pleasure districts. What a hard life! That life would genuinely suck ass. (No pun intended here.) Whenever my life starts to suck and things look down, I can always say to myself, "I could've been a tayu." (How I'd pull that off, being a man and not a particularly good-looking one, I don't know.) Your video taught me that, Linfamy. Domo arigato gozaimasu!
I remember being read the story of Kachō and Kayoiji as a kid, of course it was made more kid friendly and gave a lesson about how kindness and generosity will make you more likable than beauty and money. It felt like whiplash when I heard this because they left out the part that they were both courtesans, they even used their names in the story. I wish I could find the one i got read, the website took it down years ago, probably because parents didn't like the origin of the story
my original comment got deleted cause youtube terminated my channel 😭 but anyways, thank you for making videos about Tayu! They have been useful for my fics and written rp/collab stories.
I can't believe I watched the entire sponsor segment cause it was entertaining... Bro you are just born in the wrong era, you will fit in the Edo era perfectly XD
So, this has to say, this has to be the closest equivalent to guys and gals trying to sell alcohol at these clubs and bring in certain level of money per night...
Are there any remaining records of stalking or kidnapping or trafficking sex workers in the Japanese history? Also cases of doing sex work outside a brothel or outside the pleasure district or in a patron's property or inn? Were there any jilted lovers coming back to a brothel and murdering multiple sex workers or serial killers who singled out sex workers or sex workers who were serial killers?
The real reason why the Japanese are so willing to ship their snacks around the world is because that way no foreigners will come to Japan to buy that stuff themselves.
It isn't helped that Japan temporarily banned foreign tourists travelling to Japan during the twilight of the pandemic and even when they lifted the restrictions the red tape for foreign tourists is still considerable. Also, a lot of places in Japan are economically dying: you think them doing crazy things like have animals as train conductors and making mosaics out of rice paddies was done for funsies? No, they did it to attract (foreign) money to their communities to stave off collapse...
I could swear top courtesans were called oiran, not tayū. Tayū were actually noble imperial performers, but they’re commonly mistaken as courtesans because the high ranking courtesans purposely copied tayū because of their beauty and noble status. The word tayū literally means great one, after all, and that alone should say something about just how respected they were
Tayū were actually courtesans of the highest rank. The term oiran came into use after the tayū disappeared (women stopped attaining that rank). Oiran means high ranking courtesans in general. Modern tayū are not courtesans, they're basically an homage to the historical tayū.
@@Linfamy No, tayū we’re never courtesans. They were always distinguished imperial artisans treasured by even the emperor. They only existed in the Shimabara District in Kyoto, though, since that’s where the emperor and his court were chillin’ for the longest time. Tayū were originally the ones to perform dochū, wear the extravagant hair ornaments, and loads of other stuff, but they never provided sexual services. They also never wore the “cutting board” obi that oiran are usually seen with, instead tying their sashes in a special knot that turns the creases into the kanji for “heart.” They also stained their teeth black and only painted their bottom lips, two things oiran didn’t do. There were of course many more oiran than tayū at any present time, and since they only existed in one city and were depicted so similarly, they came to be known as courtesans even though they weren’t. And there are actually modern tayū in the Shimabara district today. Like Aōi Tada, who trained from just two years and eight months old to be an artisan.
@@Solar_Axis there are records listing tayu at brothel houses in Yoshiwara. It's pretty well documented they provided sexual services. I recommend checking out Cecilia Seigle's book on Yoshiwara 👍 I do agree that modern tayu are not courtesans.
@@Linfamy Quite a few oiran called themselves tayū, which only added to the confusion between the two. Aōi Tada, an actual tayū, explained this personally in an interview she did with Let’s Ask Shogo. A lot of well-respected historians also get it wrong just because they’ve been so muddled together over the centuries
Yep, I know about that interview 🙂, other viewers have linked it to me before. Respectfully, Aoi Tayu is not a historian. She's great at what she does, but I don't expect her to be familiar with all of the history. From what I've seen, tayu were courtesans. But I appreciate you bringing up the subject. Have a good holidays 😁🎉
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Wait what happened to Boxsu?! I feel so betrayed and confused
Omg
I love your videos please make more.
This actually might have me sold
"They didn't just sell sex; they sold a fantasy of love and companionship."
Sounds like many streamers and most Vtubers.
hahahhaha japan plan so early that we know hee
Their Fanbases are the same too lol
When this works so well, I wonder why most prostitutes strictly sell sex.
I imagine that this was a terribly lonely existence for these Courtesans, even while being surrounded by all of these clients who claimed to love or even just care for the Courtesans.
Sometimes offering a caricature of affection can be a very cruel thing to do to somebody.
It makes me wonder what the rate of suicide was among Courtesans in the Edo period.
Not to mention most of them probably didn't have friends because other courtesans were their rivals. It's sad
Did you forget the last video where the guy literally sold his high position in Edo for his courtesan and got in trouble with the court? If anything actually loving them was the problem, not the opposite
@@nonamepasserbya6658 That's nice, but life for most hookers, back then and now, is not the same thing as "Pretty Woman."
And especially in a culture like Japan's that has traditionally placed so much value on honor and saving face, it wouldn't exactly go over well if word got around that a man abandoned his family/wife and/or rescued some whore from a brothel.
Johns don't go to whores for love, then or now.
@@nonamepasserbya6658obcesión no es amor
That was the single funniest sponsorship segment I have ever seen. I was actually laughing aloud and had my housemates staring at me in confusion. Loved it!!
"Tayu life was actually quite free... of liberties." OMG, that's hilarious!
A real rollercoaster ride of dramatic revelations and emotion!
And that was just the ad segment.
😂
9:12 the way you said "love" here is actually a slang word for money in Hungarian! It works so perfectly as a pun about money/love :P
Nothing better than lóvé
I watch & rewatch his story telling videos whenever I am trying to fall asleep. Linfamy has become the grandma I never had.
Same!😂😂
I find these videos fascinating. I can't help but think of how for seemingly all of human history, men have been obsessed with women and our sexuality, and that obsession leads to systems that encourage objectification, sex trafficking, early deaths, etc. Fascinating and very sad. Grateful to live during a period where women have more choices (in general) and less of us have to consider selling ourselves in such a manner to survive. I hope the day comes where this is never needed for women, and only those that are truly interested in living in such a manner do so.
I highly doubt humans will ever stop exploiting each other.
@lainiwakura1776 I know. A girl can dream though
As far as biology is concerned, literally nothing matters aside from reproducing. Living, dying, accomplishments, morality, ethics, all irrelevant compared to just making children. After all, the only people who's genes continue are those who have children. That's the kind of personality that evolution creates. When you account for that, and the fact that men and women have two completely different reproductive goals, it becomes pretty clear *why* society has developed as it has. For men, having as many children as possible with as many women as possible with as little investment as possible would result in more children surviving and continuing on. Comparatively, for women, having as many children as possible with a single man who is heavily invested in only her and her children makes much more sense, as women are extremely vulnerable when carrying children, and feeding and raising them requires significant energy and time expenditures.
All of this being said, I don't think I need to tell you which strategy is more ethical and appropriate, especially in the modern day. But unfortunately, the difference in male and female psychology when it comes to sexuality is just built into our biology. History reflects this very clearly. The good news is that, as we become more advanced as a society and we, hopefully, acknowledge these differences and their motivations, we can work to overcome what our biology tells us to do and start to choose what our minds know is correct and moral.
@@KeterMalkuthyour comment has good points but there are some big issues with your reasoning, particularly on the men's side. Human males absolutely do benefit from spending resources on their own children. Unless a species has lots of offspring that develop quickly or very competent lone mothers, the strategy you mentioned doesn't work. Usually, only one human is born at a time and it takes YEARS for it to do anything useful. We survived by being social and cooperative bc that's what works for our children. In this situation, the man that spend the least time taking care of other people's offspring and instead focus on his own is the one that succeeds. That's one of the main reasons why so many patriarchal societies treated women as property of their husband: it was a way to almost guarantee the offspring is theirs. It's also why female cheating was often punishable by death while male cheating was considered normal. Males still get tons of variety in their gene pool by cheating, but females don't. So yeah, the idea this model benefits women is bullshit. It's made by men, for men. No wonder some of the most violently misogynistic people nowadays hate divorce so much lol
@@DragonNya69hehe That's true, I spoke perhaps too broadly for the sake of making my point regarding the biological drivers clear. Rather than encouraging a complete lack of investment on the part of men, it encourages men to be more liberal with their investment in several women, whereas women have incentive to be more invested in a single partner.
The primary facet I wanted to illustrate is that the behaviors that biology encourage are, to some degree, directly contrary between men and women. What behaviors benefit women and what behaviors benefit men, from the perspective of solely continuing their genes, while similar, are noticeably different.
Obviously, being loyal to your partner and treating them right and investing yourself in one person is the correct choice in the modern day. Our mortality rates are significantly reduced so there's very little imbalance between our gender ratios, we all implicitly understand the emotional betrayal associated with cheating, and we all know children deserve to have two dedicated parents. However, biologically, we're not all 100% wired to adhere to that goal. By acknowledging that, we can find solutions and work around what hormones and instincts tell us to do.
Since you mentioned love can ruin them & showing Komurasaki from One Piece reminds me that her name might come from Miura-ya Komurasaki which was a real life Oiran from the Edo period with a tragic love story that is immortalized in Kitagawa Utamaro's painting “The Lovers Miura-ya Komurasaki & Shirai Gonpachi” where Gonpachi committed crimes to buy her freedom but it caused his death which made the her committed suicide after learning of his death
That was, hands down, one of the best and most hilarious promos I’ve ever heard lmao And Im totally using “aggressively broke” from now on. It spoke to my soul lmao
This is one of the most interesting as well as entertaining channels on this platform! There's so many beautiful and fascinating artwork and I love the narrators humour too 😊 Sometimes I listen to this with my soon to be husband. My soon to be husband is half Finnish 🇫🇮 half Japanese 🇯🇵 and also, one of my favourite movies of all time is Takahashi Mike's Imprint. I'm so happy that I subscribed 😊
Thank you 🙏🫶 and greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Cheers from USA! Glad you like the vids, and congrats on getting married soon :)
Always happy to sit out the sponsoring segments made by Linfamy, is guaranteed entertaining! And love the tiny cookie crumbles on the face of the tayu holding a kawaii cup😁
I really love how the art gets better each episodes
Your videos are always so good and interesting.
I've been a fan for around 5 years and you always inpress me with these videos. Great job!!!
Wow it's been a while! Glad you're sticking around ❤️. If you want a free sticker or keychain, send me an email ;) linfamy1@gmail.com
Wah thank you very much! 😮😊
That sponsorship transition was so smooth omg 😂
I was laughing so hard at the sponsorship video! You really found the perfect time to put it in 😂😂😂
That was the smoothest transition to a sponsor ive ever seen. Like butter
I'd honestly watch a whole show with this art style
A CZcamsr called "asked Shojo" interviewed a Tayu. There are three I think in Kyoto left. They weren't prostitutes but the highest rank of geisha. She seemed annoyed about the prostitute thing lol. But I just wanted to mention that.
Yep, modern tayu are not like the historical ones.
You have to remember that the modern Taiyu is not like the historical Taiyu as the former is a product of legal fiction lobbied for by geishas at the time the 1957 anti-Prostitution law was enacted since the Taiyu are considered "Prostitutes" by the letter of that law...
I actually watched the ad for once.
The most creative way to present sponser.
Hands down the best way to sponsor Tokyotreat and Saquraco my favorite monthly dox subscriptions
The sponsorships are very hilariously placed. Love the vids. Haha.
Never thought a history youtuber had a proper sexy personnality w/o really showing themselves before. Also the drawings and the narration, I don't have am epic description for it but they work perfectly. Thanks Linfamy
After that ad, I’m totally buying a Sakuraco & Tokyo Treat box
Its amazing how the second I get super into looking at the history behind oiran and tayuu, Linfamy uploads a ton of videos on the subject. I do have one question though:
I understand that tayuu and oiran are different, tayuu being pre 1750 and oiran being post (at least in yoshiwara). But how were they simular, and how were they different? Based on my research, their appearances differed in a few different ways, and oiran were, while still trained in the arts, much less trained than tayuu. Not to mention all the different types of rank within the oiran umbrella and ranks beneath the tayuu. It gets very confusing very quick.
your segue into the ad is truly brilliant
Baby, baby, baby.... where's my box? I gave you my box. Now, where's my friggin box? ❤
Lin love
"The fashion was like Kanye, it got crazier and crazier." Lmao that's awesome 😎
Man ever since I found this channel I can't stop watching it. I've been binging for days.
Woohoo
When I was a teenager, I was in love with Japan. It was a magical place, I thought. I was enamored with ninja and shinto, and pretty much everything. Naturally, I wanted to learn more about this wonderful place. That was my mistake. The more I learned, the less magical Japan became. It was a country like every other country in the world, complete with problems, unfortunate history, ordinary people, and no magical anime fantasy.
Oh, to have that ignorant bliss of youth again. Reality bites.
I still love Japan, for what it is, not what imagine.
This video-all your videos-remind me of that. I feel for the human beings of Japan's historical pleasure districts. What a hard life! That life would genuinely suck ass. (No pun intended here.)
Whenever my life starts to suck and things look down, I can always say to myself, "I could've been a tayu." (How I'd pull that off, being a man and not a particularly good-looking one, I don't know.)
Your video taught me that, Linfamy. Domo arigato gozaimasu!
Awesome to see Sakuran included, absolutely gorgeous manga ✨
I really want Sakuraco and Tokyotreat boxes now
Holy hell i just realized i sat thru a whole sponsorship 😂😅🎉 good job.
I love your intro imagery it gives me a nice warm cozy feeling. Suitable for this time of year.
Thank you your stories are just so wonderful °~•.☆.•~°
Glad you like em!
3:24 such a good ad damn
0:05 1:03 1:44 2:58 3:01 4:54 5:55 6:36 8:58 9:02 10:20
I remember being read the story of Kachō and Kayoiji as a kid, of course it was made more kid friendly and gave a lesson about how kindness and generosity will make you more likable than beauty and money.
It felt like whiplash when I heard this because they left out the part that they were both courtesans, they even used their names in the story.
I wish I could find the one i got read, the website took it down years ago, probably because parents didn't like the origin of the story
I love Sakuraco! This is the best sponsorship segment ever.
The commercial 😭😭 I’m actually sold😂😂😂
my original comment got deleted cause youtube terminated my channel 😭 but anyways, thank you for making videos about Tayu! They have been useful for my fics and written rp/collab stories.
So happy to see you put Sakuran artwork in there ❤ it's one of my favorite mangas
"Chicken sashimi" looked so good on the fancy plate!- then my brain caught up with your words. Oh.
@0:22 Would def tune in for a Kaiju in Kimonos Klash!
I notice how the video digresses from TokyoTreat to the Japan History Lecture.
When red light had style
Love your videos and i was not expecting to literally lol from your ad 😂
☺️🏆 p.s. I love the animation and storytelling is so awesome
I sincerely appreciate how you tell stories
"It resulted in the most tragic event..."
Me: "Pregnancy?"
Love your videos. However part of me is disappointed that you didn't draw two different colored Godzillas in kimonos. :( Still you're great.
So how do you drink a lot of alcohol on an empty stomach without getting taken advantage of?
They were free! ... of liberties
The narration takes so many left turns it's pretty much a circle ⭕😂
ooOooOOh a new video
Edit: NO FUGING WAY I GO A HART FROM BRO HECK YEA
"Like Godzilla and King Kong in Kimono's" - instant love like 😘
i laughed hard when he said lo-ve coz in my dialect it means uncivilized 😆
I can't believe I watched the entire sponsor segment cause it was entertaining... Bro you are just born in the wrong era, you will fit in the Edo era perfectly XD
Man, the way you push your sponsors... if I were not as broke as the first beggar, I'd go for Sakurako...
So, this has to say, this has to be the closest equivalent to guys and gals trying to sell alcohol at these clubs and bring in certain level of money per night...
My boy romeo keeps catching strays
Does anyone know what manga is shown in the video? Looks good!
"Godzilla and King Kong in Kimonos" that cracked me up
Dunnno if you draw these yourself, but the artstyle is really cute
Still Tayuu in Kyoto mind. But they are somewhat more refined!
Yay!!!! Thank you for more knowledge!
Life for courtesan was tough. Hope at least some found good nen and lived happy lives
best spoonsor commercial in the history of youtube
Ok that’s was sneaky as..... 😂
7:13 up there goes gravity
Lol, I'm still laughing at the fact these ladies were out there crip walking.
Are there any remaining records of stalking or kidnapping or trafficking sex workers in the Japanese history? Also cases of doing sex work outside a brothel or outside the pleasure district or in a patron's property or inn?
Were there any jilted lovers coming back to a brothel and murdering multiple sex workers or serial killers who singled out sex workers or sex workers who were serial killers?
I thought about that. I suppose yes.
Prostitution was illegal outside of Yoshiwara.
this is a fire sponsorship
I'm sure a box of Sakuraco will be enough to buy these girls out of whatever contract they were under
Well I'll be. I just watched the previous video about this
Wonder what Daki did..
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@@Linfamy :D
Yay, that's me! I'm Chibiusa40 😄 I look forward to all your videos, awesome content.
Woohoo!
Nice
Well done on those ads, it was fun. Don't spend all your money on brothel
The real reason why the Japanese are so willing to ship their snacks around the world is because that way no foreigners will come to Japan to buy that stuff themselves.
Still the foreigners keep coming.
It isn't helped that Japan temporarily banned foreign tourists travelling to Japan during the twilight of the pandemic and even when they lifted the restrictions the red tape for foreign tourists is still considerable. Also, a lot of places in Japan are economically dying: you think them doing crazy things like have animals as train conductors and making mosaics out of rice paddies was done for funsies? No, they did it to attract (foreign) money to their communities to stave off collapse...
Can anyone tell me what manga Linfamy keeps showing clips of?
What about the modern Tayuu like Aoi Tayuu? She explained it differently a bit. Is it the same or different?
Modern tayu are totally different.
Dat sponsorship!
😂😂😂😂
Yaaa!!! Our boy is getting sponsers !
You time travel. Go to a pleasure district and talk about food. Lol
Another great video!
I have to ask: Where is that artwork at 7:45 from?
Thx
Even for the best of the best, the oldest profession has never been an easy one.
Save for the pimps and madames calling the shots.
I could swear top courtesans were called oiran, not tayū. Tayū were actually noble imperial performers, but they’re commonly mistaken as courtesans because the high ranking courtesans purposely copied tayū because of their beauty and noble status. The word tayū literally means great one, after all, and that alone should say something about just how respected they were
Tayū were actually courtesans of the highest rank. The term oiran came into use after the tayū disappeared (women stopped attaining that rank). Oiran means high ranking courtesans in general.
Modern tayū are not courtesans, they're basically an homage to the historical tayū.
@@Linfamy No, tayū we’re never courtesans. They were always distinguished imperial artisans treasured by even the emperor. They only existed in the Shimabara District in Kyoto, though, since that’s where the emperor and his court were chillin’ for the longest time. Tayū were originally the ones to perform dochū, wear the extravagant hair ornaments, and loads of other stuff, but they never provided sexual services. They also never wore the “cutting board” obi that oiran are usually seen with, instead tying their sashes in a special knot that turns the creases into the kanji for “heart.” They also stained their teeth black and only painted their bottom lips, two things oiran didn’t do. There were of course many more oiran than tayū at any present time, and since they only existed in one city and were depicted so similarly, they came to be known as courtesans even though they weren’t. And there are actually modern tayū in the Shimabara district today. Like Aōi Tada, who trained from just two years and eight months old to be an artisan.
@@Solar_Axis there are records listing tayu at brothel houses in Yoshiwara. It's pretty well documented they provided sexual services. I recommend checking out Cecilia Seigle's book on Yoshiwara 👍
I do agree that modern tayu are not courtesans.
@@Linfamy Quite a few oiran called themselves tayū, which only added to the confusion between the two. Aōi Tada, an actual tayū, explained this personally in an interview she did with Let’s Ask Shogo. A lot of well-respected historians also get it wrong just because they’ve been so muddled together over the centuries
Yep, I know about that interview 🙂, other viewers have linked it to me before. Respectfully, Aoi Tayu is not a historian. She's great at what she does, but I don't expect her to be familiar with all of the history.
From what I've seen, tayu were courtesans. But I appreciate you bringing up the subject. Have a good holidays 😁🎉
hello there
What was that Manga you used in the video? The one after the one piece one.
It's called Sakuran.
@@Linfamy Thank you!
Does he do his own drawing?
Do the Ainu religions and Kamuy.
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Very interesting :D
Yasss One piece Wano arc. Yasss
Retired by 20 wow life was so different
retired without money, being an outcast with STDs probably PSTD, too
Isn't tayu supposed to be a high ranking geisha?
And maybe the story of tokoyo the samurais daughter