Beschreibung:
This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
Chapter 1 A Prologue to the History of Women at the Lowest Level of Society; Chapter 2 A Chance Encounter-My First Trip to Amakusa; Chapter 3 My Attempts at a Second Trip; Chapter 4 Life with Osaki; Chapter 5 Osaki's Story-The Life of an Overseas Prostitute; Chapter 6 Many More Voiceless Voices; Chapter 7 Ofumi's Life; Chapter 8 Oshimo's Grave; Chapter 9 Okuni's Birthplace; Chapter 10 The Home of Gagnon Sana; Chapter 11 Farewell, Amakusa; Chapter 12 Epilogue-Karayuki-san and Modern Japan; author Author's Afterword to the First Edition (1972); trans Translator's Afterword;