yuna　湯女

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

A low class of prostitutes during the Genna 元和 and Kan'ei 寛永 eras (1615-44). Typically, after meeting customers by washing their backs at a large bathhouse sentou 銭湯, yuna would attend them at dinner before accompanying them to bed. With the establishment of licensed pleasure quarters the free-lance yuna were officially prohibited. The brazenly wanton lifestyle of these women made them a favorite painting theme in early 17c "genre painting" *fuuzokuga 風俗画. The Yuna-zu 湯女図 (MOA Museum, Shizuoka prefecture) is the most well-known.

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