Edo Traveler

Chapter 24: Edo Loukan is closed for business

Needless to say, the Tokugawa shogunate also set up managers such as the town for Yoshihara, and Yoshihara’s land actually belongs to the shogunate, and each family’s Fengyue site (the reason why you can’t use the two-character term, you all know The owner of) is called "store borrowing".

   To put it bluntly, those mother-sang hostesses are not necessarily real bosses, at most they are managers, senior wage earners. At this time, Mumei and Machikata in the main town of Kabukicho came to greet the Shangguan Heizan. Are they permanent on the ground? They have ears, eyes and ears. Hey Sanyi will know when he comes in.

  As notified by these people, the actual managers of each store rushed to take orders one after another. In fact, there is nothing to talk about. The formality and the flow of sentencing have been the same throughout the ages.

   Under the guidance of a 30-year-old vision, Tadaemon and Heizo walked into a Fenggetsu place, which is said to have an assembly living room with more than 100 tatami mats. It was originally used to entertain the kind of distinguished guests, but now it is used to gather people and convey the spirit of the shogunate's grand funeral of the Tokugawa family.

   Needless to say, there are no caverns in Kabukicho. The decoration of this Fengyue place in front of you is absolutely luxurious. The one that greets you when you enter the door is a thousand-step stack, which is indescribable.

   What is meant by "thousand steps"? This is also a kind of decoration unique to Japan. The so-called stacking is naturally tatami. Generally, the tatami is made according to the length of the rush that weaves the tatami, and the length and width are limited. And even in later generations, when many Japanese real estate houses are sold, they don’t say how many square meters the house is, but that there are eight or twelve in the house.

   The stacks of large-scale goods are of course nothing to cherish and precious things. Usuki stacks in Usuki, Kyushu, and Tsuyama stacks in Tsuyama, Mizuoka, China are the top grades. The price is more expensive than ordinary stacks, but they are also limited.

   Thousand-step stacks can be seen from the name, but it is a thousand-step stack, which is an imaginary number. The actual meaning is that there may be a dozen or even dozens of sheets on the porch where people enter the house, but this store only has one!

   Only this one!

   represents the highest level of stacking weaving technology, and also represents the store’s financial and personal connections to a considerable height. If Tademon remembers correctly, in later generations, there is only one old weaver in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan who has such a knitting skill. You must know that a rush is only two meters long from the sky. How to connect two meters of rush to weave, you can't see a little bit on the outside, and it's always in the end. That's definitely a clever workmanship.

If I remember correctly, the seventeen-and-a-half-meter-long thousand-step stack in later generations was finally knitted by the old weaver for seven months and more than six hours a day, and the price was as high as nine. Millions of yen.

   The battle in front of me is thousands of steps, and I look at it, I'm afraid it's not 30 meters or even longer. If it can be saved to Japan in the future, the weaver will have to be praised as a "god of stacking", and it will only be finished if it sells for thirty to fifty million yen.

   Luxury! What a luxury!

  The pillars on both sides of the thousand-step stack are carved with a large number of complicated patterns, and there are even special sculptures made of plaster and paint, leaping cranes, flying colored cuckoos, and macaques holding unknown flowers. Everything is dazzling and dizzying.

   To tell the truth, even Chuemon who came through in later generations thought these things were quite beautiful. Those arts in later life, sorry, we laymen really didn't see what kind of bird it was.

   Muming and the few shops who came to lead the way saw Heizo's youth, and they had all speculations in their hearts. After all, even though Tongxin was a small official who served as a fifty-stone and one-hundred-stone banner, he was also a direct minister of the shogunate. Guan Pingsan's dress, even the hair braids that Yuanfu wore, has not been combed, and recently I have never heard of anyone who concentrically confessed to the old and made official appointments and made his own children assault.

   Isn't he a young master who came here by air?

   Naturally, someone knocked on the side, but Ping San was also calm, put on an official posture, and strode forward. Anyway, I just didn't say it clearly, didn't talk to me, um, ah, just perfunctory. This made the people who led the way more and more guessing, but it was a pity that Heizo was not in charge of Yoshihara's concentric, but just came to convey the order of the shogunate.

   The barrier doors of the rooms on both sides of Qianbujue opened one by one, and many benefactors were dressing and rinsing under the call and service of the maids. Those practitioners also look like they are not waking up in the spring. After all, at five o'clock in the morning, for these people, it is only midnight, and perhaps it takes only two or three hours to lie down and rest.

  The more you go in, the higher the level of the practitioner, which is easy to understand. Since it is a mature business place for Fengyue, there will definitely be some oiran or top spot. Perhaps it is because most of the practitioners who have customers have cleaned up~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Those powders and the like have washed off a lot, and they can see the color even more.

  From the outside to the inside, the beauty and age are indeed progressive. Just like the practitioner that Chuemon just saw, he was at most fifteen or six years old, with a professional smile, and a plain white silk knit cloth, which seemed a bit pitiful to me.

   The women and the benefactors in the Japanese rooms saw that the 16-year-old boy who was still a childish child like Hei San was greeted, and they seemed to be a little bit ridiculous in it. Yingying Yanyan said something innocent, as if he was teasing Miwa Chuemon.

   After all, in their eyes, the congregation of Edo, who represents the authority of the Tokugawa Shogun’s conqueror, may still be a young child.

hehe!

   I’m a chick, it’s almost the same!

Just a few hundred steps away. When the two of them walked to the 100-fold large Japanese room, a servant immediately brought up six celadon braziers with entwined flowers, lit the finest Binchotan charcoal and warmed up the room, please calm down San'an sits. Another maid brought hot water and towels to wash her face, please Ping San to wash and warm her hands.

   After waiting for a few incense sticks, a large group of men and women Yoshihara's operators arrived here, with a little panic on their faces. Of course it would not be a good thing for the shogunate to send personnel temporarily.

   After holding the register, he ordered all the places where the shogunate registered to receive licenses and paid taxes to the shogunate, Heizo cleared his throat. Signaled to Chuemon that the meeting could begin.

   "Everyone, the Imperial Palace was promoted last night, and now all the buildings in Kabukicho Yoshihara are closed for 30 days from now, this order!"

   Chungemon's voice has not yet finished, and everyone is sighing whether they know the news or those who don't know the news.

  

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