Sentence examples for pleasure district from inspiring English sources

Learning of it, American entrepreneurs dreamed of building a pleasure district of dance halls and cabarets just steps away in the United States.

The center of Edo's cultural ferment was the Yoshiwara pleasure district, with its tea houses, taverns, theaters, brothels and courtesans — who became the arbiters of fashion, parading the central thoroughfare with their entourages as though on a catwalk.

Nihonbashi was not just the merchant heart of a city crisscrossed by waterways and, with a population of over 1m, more teeming even than Hogarth's London; it was also a pleasure district of teahouses, Kabuki theatres and courtesans.

Edo's pleasure district and its activities produced a new art form, "ukiyo-e" (pictures of the floating world), the mass-market version being colored wood-block prints, for which many of Japan's finest artists supplied designs, extending the range of the subject matter over time.

In the centre is Tomimoto Toyohina, a famed geisha at the Tamamuraya house in the Yoshiwara pleasure district.

This was an important aspect of the culture of the pleasure districts in premodern Japan.

The cynical tone of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction set in the pleasure districts of Kyoto and Edo suggests that Tanizaki may have had a point.

In 1876 a police captain, learning he was to be transferred to one of the main pleasure districts, commented gleefully: "I've been having chuck steak ever since I've been on the force and now I'm going to have a bit of tenderloin".

In the video, Ms. Brown — herself a fabulous fashion confection, with a Mohawk hairstyle and a sweater-type garment wrapped around her like a snake — makes a connection between the urban pleasure districts of 18th-century Japan and the American rap and hip-hop culture of late-20th-century American rap.

Many indulged in the entertainments of kabuki theatre, courtesans, and geisha of the pleasure districts.

The women depicted were most often courtesans and geisha at leisure, and promoted the entertainments to be found in the pleasure districts.