| 中店 | [ちゅうみせ, chuumise] (n) (1) mid-sized store; (2) middle-class brothel (in a red-light district) |
| 呼び出し(P);呼出し;呼出(io) | [よびだし, yobidashi] (n,vs) (1) (See 呼び出す・よびだす・1) call; summons; (n) (2) sumo usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; (3) (abbr) (See 呼び出し電話) telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (4) (arch) (See 陸湯) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (5) (arch) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (6) (arch) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period); (P) |
| 岡場所 | [おかばしょ, okabasho] (n) red-light district |
| 廓;郭;曲輪 | [くるわ;かく(廓;郭), kuruwa ; kaku ( kaku ; kaku )] (n) (1) district; quarter; (2) enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; (3) red-light district |
| 油虫;あぶら虫 | [あぶらむし;アブラムシ, aburamushi ; aburamushi] (n) (1) (uk) aphid; plant louse; (2) (obsc) (See ゴキブリ) cockroach; (3) (obsc) (See 油蝙蝠) Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus); (4) hanger-on; parasite; (5) (arch) visitor to a red-light district who's only there to look |
| 花柳界 | [かりゅうかい, karyuukai] (n) red-light district; pleasure quarters; world of the geisha; demimonde; (P) |
| 花街;花町 | [かがい(花街);はなまち, kagai ( hana machi ); hanamachi] (n) red-light district; prostitution quarter; geisha quarter |
| 遊客 | [ゆうかく, yuukaku] (n) sightseer; playboy; frequenter of red-light districts |
| 遊山所 | [ゆさんじょ, yusanjo] (n) (1) (arch) excursion spot; getaway; (2) (arch) red-light district; brothel |
| 郭言葉 | [くるわことば, kuruwakotoba] (n) (arch) language used in red-light districts during the Edo period; vulgar words used by prostitutes from the Edo period |
| 風来 | [ふうらい, fuurai] (n,adj-no) (1) frivolity; unpredictability; erraticism; (2) first-time guest in a red-light district |
| 魔窟 | [まくつ, makutsu] (n) (1) den of thieves; (2) (See 売春宿) brothel; red-light district; (3) (col) cluttered room |