The Bodhisattva of Yoshiwara (a schematic to avoid the work of the essay) [desperation in the old pleasure quarter / compassion of the Virgin-Bodhisattva / helplessly turning away]
▬ ▬ This is a place made possible by loneliness and desperation. ▭ You will feel it. It is there in the urging of the doormen, who stand outside of the soaplands, where sex can be sold through a loophole in the law forbidding prostitution.1 They greet the vans that glide in from Minowa, as runners would once have greeted the chokibune coming up the canal…
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