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- Mizu_shōbai abstract "Mizu-shōbai (水商売), literally the water trade, is the traditional euphemism for the night-time entertainment business in Japan, provided by hostess or snack bars, bars, and cabarets. Kabuki-chō in Shinjuku, Tokyo is Japan's most famous area where one can patronize the water trade, as well as its more carnal counterpart fūzoku (風俗)—the sex industry composed of soaplands, pink salons, health, and image clubs. While the actual origin of the term mizu-shōbai is debatable, it is likely the term came into use during the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868). The Tokugawa period saw the development of large bathhouses and an expansive network of roadside inns offering \"hot baths and sexual release\", as well as the expansion of geisha districts and courtesan quarters in cities and towns throughout the country. Bearing relation to the pleasure-seeking aspects of ukiyo (浮世, with its antithetical homophone 憂世 \"sorrowful cycle of existence\"), or \"the floating world\", mizu-shōbai is a metaphor for floating, drinking and the impermanence of life, akin to the English expression, \"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die\" (I Cor. 15:32).According to one theory proposed by the Nihon Gogen Daijiten, the term comes from the Japanese expression \"Gain or loss is a matter of chance\" (勝負は水物だ, shōbu wa mizumono da), where the literal meaning of the phrase \"matter of chance\", mizumono (水物), is \"a matter of water\". In the entertainment business, income depends on a large number of fickle factors like popularity among customers, the weather, the state of the economy, and success and failure change as rapidly as the flow of water. The Nihon Zokugo Daijiten, on the other hand, notes that the term may derive from the expression doromizu-kagyō (泥水稼業), lit. \"muddy water earning business\", for earning a living in the red-light districts, or from the Edo-era expression mizuchaya (水茶屋) for a public teahouse.".
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- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Bar.
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- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Category:Euphemisms.
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- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sexuality_in_Japan.
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- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Host_and_hostess_clubs.
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- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Kabukichō,_Tokyo.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Metaphor.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Pink_salon.
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- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Sexuality_in_Japan.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Shinjuku.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Soapland.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Tokugawa_shogunate.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLink Ukiyo.
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mizu shōbai".
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLinkText "mizu shobai".
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLinkText "mizu shōbai".
- Mizu_shōbai wikiPageWikiLinkText "water trade".
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- Mizu_shōbai subject Category:Euphemisms.
- Mizu_shōbai subject Category:Japanese_sex_terms.
- Mizu_shōbai subject Category:Sexuality_in_Japan.
- Mizu_shōbai hypernym Euphemism.
- Mizu_shōbai type Diacritic.
- Mizu_shōbai type Redirect.
- Mizu_shōbai type Term.
- Mizu_shōbai comment "Mizu-shōbai (水商売), literally the water trade, is the traditional euphemism for the night-time entertainment business in Japan, provided by hostess or snack bars, bars, and cabarets. Kabuki-chō in Shinjuku, Tokyo is Japan's most famous area where one can patronize the water trade, as well as its more carnal counterpart fūzoku (風俗)—the sex industry composed of soaplands, pink salons, health, and image clubs.".
- Mizu_shōbai label "Mizu shōbai".
- Mizu_shōbai sameAs Q6884754.
- Mizu_shōbai sameAs 水商売.
- Mizu_shōbai sameAs m.025y3g9.
- Mizu_shōbai sameAs Q6884754.
- Mizu_shōbai sameAs 水商賣.
- Mizu_shōbai wasDerivedFrom Mizu_shōbai?oldid=703263472.
- Mizu_shōbai isPrimaryTopicOf Mizu_shōbai.