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On the southern outskirts of Jerusalem, researchers led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Liat Oz excavated a shaft tomb constructed in the late fourth or early third century B.C., during the Hellenistic period, after Alexander the Great had conquered the region. Inside the burial, which was situated along an ancient highway far from any settlement, they found the charred bones of a young woman who likely died in her 20s. Four bent iron nails placed around her partially cremated remains were intended to protect both the deceased from would-be grave robbers and the grave diggers from her. Laid next to the woman was a type of bronze folding mirror called a box mirror with a handle and a hinged cover engraved with six concentric circles.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape print. The print series that established his reputation in the early 1830s was the Fifty-three Stages of the Tōkaidō Road. This series depicts scenes along the Tōkaidō, the major highway that linked the cities of Edo and Kyoto. Hiroshige balanced striking landscape views with detailed, often humorous depictions of travellers and their encounters with local customs and various weather conditions. The series was so successful that Hiroshige went on to produce several more sets of views along the road.
The landscape was a new subject for Japanese woodblock prints in the early 1800s. Until this time most prints depicted Kabuki actors and courtesans. Hiroshige used a newly available Western pigment known as Prussian blue to depict sky and water. This brilliant blue was especially effective when applied using a printing technique known as bokashi, which allowed subtle colour gradation.
The licensed pleasure quarter of Edo, known as Yoshiwara, famed for its government-sanctioned brothels, kabuki theater, fashionable restaurants, and street entertainment, was a principal inspiration for many Ukiyo-e artists. It was here -- in this "floating world" of pleasure and entertainment -- that the confines of social class could be pushed aside. Various forms of entertainment, particularly kabuki theater and the pleasure quarters, lured monied patrons who were eager in turn to acquire the vivid images of celebrated actors and exquisite courtesans created by Ukiyo-e artists.
Bijin-ga, or images of beauties, celebrate both real and idealized women. At first the images featured high-ranking courtesans but soon included historic figures, geisha (performers of music and dance), lower-ranked courtesans, fictional characters, notable townswomen, and everyday women. The women are portrayed in different activities and occupations, in public and private settings--doing chores, flirting, performing, writing--always surrounded by an aura of captivating beauty.
These high-ranking courtesans from Edo's famous pleasure district, Yoshiwara, are identified on each print by their names, the houses in which they worked, and the locations of the houses. Gorgeously attired from their elaborately coiffed hair to their lofty platform shoes, these women create a dramatic impression. There were several parallels between kabuki actors and high-ranking courtesans during the Edo Period, including the use of hereditary names that could carry the caché of celebrity down through generations.
Travel blossomed in Edo society. Driven by an edict requiring that all daimyo (feudal lords with domains awarded by the shogun) maintain residences in Edo and alternate their time between the administrative center and their home domains, the shogunate developed five highways branching outward from Edo. Regular traffic to and from Edo was stimulated by these major thoroughfares--such as the Tôkaidô Highway running three hundred-odd miles along the coast between Edo and Kyoto. The highways were regularly traveled by daimyo processions, as well as ordinary people on pilgrimages, merchants, entertainers, and other sightseers and travelers.
Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. The film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian society: the entertainment of paying customers - always men - by songstresses and dancers who perform in the classical Hindustani styles of the ancient "nautch" girls. 1 videodisc (74 min.)
I am not an expert on this topic and have only scratched the surface of research that suggests that relationships between peers and courtesans were not unlikely and probably not as shocking (at least in some circles) as we may want to believe. But I put the above thoughts out there by way of presenting a little bit of historical data that what maybe we assume is impossible (or at least improbable) probably has more to do with what we learned from romance novels than reality.
According to the Heart, many of the Golden Cat's courtesans come to the brothel from farmlands, enticed by false promises of factory work.[1] Others are given to the Cat by families too poor to feed them, while still others are bastard daughters banished to the brothel.[2]
GRRM has done such a good job of creating the city of Braavos that he could write "a book" about Arya's adventures there (I wouldn't mind). Outside of the arsenal, titan, House of Black & White and different temples, one thing that stands out is the courtesans.
The courtesans of Braavos were famed across the world. Singers sang of them, goldsmiths and jewelers showered them with gifts, craftsmen begged for the honor of their custom, merchant princes paid royal ransoms to have them on their arms at balls and feasts and mummer shows, and bravos slew each other in their names. As she pushed her barrow along the canals, Cat would sometimes glimpse one of them floating by, on her way to an evening with some lover. -AFFC, Cat of the Canals
Many of the courtesans of Braavos are celebrated in song and story, and a few have even been immortalized in bronze or marble. In the Seven Kingdoms, the most storied and infamous of these are the Black Pearls. The first woman to bear that name was the captain and pirate queen Bellegere Otherys, who reigned briefly as one of the nine paramours of King Aegon IV Targaryen, and bore him a bastard daughter, Bellenora, the second Black Pearl, a famous courtesan acclaimed by the singers of her day as the most beautiful woman in all the world. Her descendants became courtesans as well, each in turn known as the Black Pearl, and each having in her veins some measure of the blood of the dragon to this very day. -TWOIAF, The Free Cities: Braavos
The King of the Mummers ignored the brief commotion. He was still talking, telling the mummers how magnificent they must be. Besides the Westerosi envoy, there would be keyholders in the crowd this evening, and famous courtesans as well. He did not intend for them to leave with a poor opinion of the Gate. "It shall go ill for any man who fails me," he promised, a threat he borrowed from the speech Prince Garin gives on the eve of battle in Wroth of the Dragonlords, Phario Forel's first play. -TWOW, Mercy
It must also be said that the courtesans of Braavos are renowned throughout the world, yet are all free women, unlike the more famous beauties of the pleasure gardens of Lys or the brothels of Volantis. Their art is not only for the bedchamber; their wit and their bearing make them much sought after by the richest merchants, the boldest captains, the most distinguished visitors. Keyholders, lords, and princes seek their favors.
The most famous courtesans take poetic names that add to their allure and mystery. Singers vie for their patronage, whilst the bravos with their slender swords oft duel to the death in the name of a courtesan. -TWOIAF, The Free Cities: Braavos
In the late 1830s, he traveled along the Nakasendo highway, contributing 46 designs to a series of 69 views of this highway (Keisai Eisen did the remainder). Hiroshige also did series of prints on Osaka and Kyoto, but it was for his various series on Edo and on highways that he achieved the greatest reputation during and after his life.
"Highway Courtesans": Inside India's "prostitute caste"
It wouldn't be right not to mention Mystelle Brabbée's extraordinary documentary "Highway Courtesans," shot over the course of nine years among the Bachara community of central India, where by tradition the oldest daughter (and often the younger ones too) support their families through prostitution. She follows three young women, the sisters Guddi and Shana and their vivacious neighbor, Sangita, as they grow up into this tradition (officially abhorred but still thriving in practice), turning tricks for truck drivers along the Delhi-Calcutta highway.
It is hard to believe, that in the present scenario, India habituates some places where girls of the families are forced into prostitution, even before they reach puberty. Prostitution is a profession that has been into existence since ages. If we turn the pages of history, then, it will become evident that many courtesans used to be the muses of the erstwhile kings.
Bachara is a tribal matriarchal community in the western part of Madhya Pradesh and women here are said to be the descendants of royal courtesans.Here, girls are forced into prostitution by their own fathers and brothers. The responsibility of making both ends meet is in the hands of the eldest daughter of the family. Most of such families have a dedicated room in their houses to continue this dreaded profession.
That was in the late 1980s. Ever since, other passers-by have pulled over and added their footwear - worn-out sneakers and too-tight pumps, ballet slippers and snowshoes. Horseshoes knotted with baling twine. Plastic stilettos from brothel courtesans (or so locals claim).
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