No.47 (January 15, 1909)
I tentatively call this section “miscellany” and collect remaining stories and new facts. Ex-Prostitute Christian In Fernie, there is a woman called Okiku, who is the wife of a black barber. She migrated to Canada with her ex-husband Hasegawa and used to run a western restaurant in Three Valley. However, Hasegawa apparently owned land in […]
No.48 (January 16, 1909)
Miscellany (cont’d) Murder of Prostitute Revelstoke has a very old cave district. I wrote about two caves currently owned by Toraji Asami and others way back in the series. A few years ago, there was a devil from Shiga Prefecture called Kudō. His wife had an English name, Jennie, and was involved in prostitution in […]
No.49 (January 18, 1909)
Miscellany (cont’d) Kishū Woman Who Invested in An Actor There was an old woman from Kishū whose name was Toku Terada. She was initially in Seattle but moved to this country later. She has already returned to Japan now. She used to be the most popular prostitute in Cranbrook, and she owned her cave, competing […]
No.50 (January 19, 1909)
Miscellany (cont’d) Severance Pay and Human Trafficking The words ‘severance pay’ do not sound nice, but they are often spoken even among the general public and not necessarily rarely-used words, so to speak. However, the words ‘human trafficking’ literally contain barbaric meanings. In fact, these two sets of words mean almost the same thing in […]
No.51 (January 20, 1909)
Miscellany (cont’d) Severance Pay and Human Trafficking (cont’d) Yakichi became Oshin’s lover, moved from the sawmill in Wattsburg to Cranbrook, and started to stay in Hashimoto’s cave as if he was sticking there. This shocked Tsurumi from Kumamoto Prefecture, working at Matsumoto’s sawmill. “What are you going to do with the relationship you developed with […]
No.52 (January 21, 1909)
Miscellany (cont’d) Severance Pay and Human Trafficking (cont’d) Being threatened by Saburō Egawa, number three Jirō Hashimoto answered: “Tsurumi got involved with Oshin soon after she left Lethbridge and while she was at Matsumoto’s. If you have any problem with it go talk to Matsumoto directly. As for Yakichi Murata, he is indeed a relative […]
No.53 (January 22, 1909)
An Ugly Case Ugly incident involving many devil leaders Furtive conflict over a crip prostitute Died in a foreign land leaving her child to [someone’s care] The reason why I wrapped up miscellany short and am starting a new section “An Ugly Case” is that this incident was rare, though a little dated, and it involved quite a […]
No.54 (January 23, 1909)
An Ugly Case (cont’d) Soon after Chiba paid 150 dollar cash to Matsumoto and Omichi was thrown into Chiba’s cave, Chiba closed down his cave in Michel and moved to Cranbrook. However, he did not stay there for a long time, either, and he moved further to Calgary. The incident happened after this. Omichi gave […]
Shōgi Kiyū no hanashi | 娼妓喜遊之話説
Kiyū is the daughter of something-Ōta, a town doctor in Tokyo. At a young age, Kiyū fell into the life of a yujo (woman of pleasure, or prostitute) at her parents’ discretion.
No.55 (January 25, 1909)
An Ugly Case (cont’d) The Chinaman persistently kept visiting the hotel to see Omichi, but each time Kimoto and Harada turned him out. However, Zixuan finally became impatient and decided to officially process marriage with Omichi by having the owner of a fruit store in North Creek be a witness and hiring a white minister. […]