yushima

Updated: May 7, 2025

Subsequently , a new shrine was erected at Yushima in the Kongo district of Yedo, and was endowed with an estate of one thousand koku to meet the expenses of the spring and autumn festivals. Further, the daimyo were required to contribute for the erection of a school in the vicinity of the shrine.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

I believe he lived the life of a court-maid in former life. Perhaps his daddy might have been a kagema at Yushima in old days." "What is a kagema?" "I suppose something very unmanly, sort of emasculated chaps. Say, that part isn't cooked enough. It might give you tape worm." "So? I think it's all right.

Soseki Natsume - Botchan (Master Darling)