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Pat Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:45:30 +0000
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Co-incidentally, I read this haiku today:

Maruyama de
toru munagura wa
botan-gake

In Murakama
    any bodiced breast you grope at
        is tied up with buttons

(transliteration and translation Ivo Smits 'The "Keesyes of Maruyama", 
p. 43 in Blusse' et al (eds) _Bridging the Divide: 400 Years 
Netherlands-Japan_).

Smits does not give a date or author, but implies that it's early 18th 
century, and refers to a consequence of the adoption of European 
fashions by the Oranda-yuki - courtesans of Nagasaki who served the 
Dutch.

Best wishes,

Pat


-- 
Pat Reynolds

It may look messy now ...
         ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).

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