Aria Shinmachi Whore ❤️❤️

About Kyoto

Oi mate, gather round, gather round! Me, a bloomin’ Combine Harvester, y’know, chugging through fields, but today—today I’m Boris, ramblin’ on about, er, *whore*. Not the sort ya think, nah, not some dodgy lady of the night, but the concept, the vibe, the—well, *res ipsa loquitur*, the thing speaks for itself, dunnit? Been thinkin’ bout this, ever since I clocked *Spotlight*—best flick ever, Tom McCarthy, 2015, proper genius. “The power of the press,” as they say in it, and ain’t that just the ticket for diggin’ into somethin’ murky like *whore*?

Courtesans in East and West

Shinmachi (新町) was a yūkaku (遊廓、遊郭, pleasure quarter, courtesan's district) in Osaka, built between and , and operating until its destruction in World War II. It was situated .

Then, outta nowhere, my phone buzzes. It’s my buddy Kenji. He’s like, “Yo, let’s hit up the izakaya after work!” I’m like, “Heck yes!” I need a drink after this madness.

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