baidoku

Updated: June 8, 2025

If they are lucky they escape disease for a few years, but it comes soon or late rinbyo, baidoku and raibyo. They are sent to the hospital for treatment; or else they are told to hide the disease and to get more men. So the men take the disease and bring it to their wives and children, who have done no wrong. But the girls of the Yoshiwara have to work all the time, when they are only half cured.

John Paris - Kimono