I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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The three of them turned and walked towards the back of Nakano-machi, which divided Yoshiwara in two.

While following Guasheng towards the back of Nakazhicho, Amachi asked Guasheng who was walking in front of him:

"Actually, why does Hua Kui bring such a large group of people around Yoshihara? Where is she going?"

"Huh?" Gua Sheng, who was walking in front, turned his head, "Miss A Xing, don't you know?"

"I don't know." Atachi shook his head honestly, "I'm a foreigner, so I don't know much about Yoshiwara."

"I only know that the oiran walks around Yoshiwara with a large group of people in the Oiran Road. As for why the oiran brings so many people around Yoshiwara, and where the oiran and they are going, I don't know."

"Is that so?" After muttering like this, Gua Sheng fell silent.

It seems to be conceiving and organizing the wording.

After a short while, Gua Sheng spoke eloquently:

"If you want to have a kiss with the oiran, you have to go through a very complicated process."

"Or you have to go through many tests first."

"If you want to kiss Fangze with the oiran, you have to go to Yang's house in Yoshihara first."

"Yangwu, you can understand it as a special teahouse."

"A special oiran responsible for acting as an intermediary between guests and oirans."

"Have a banquet in Yang's House, and ask the people from Yang's House to help you introduce the oiran."

"The journey that the oiran leads a large group of people from the Younv's house to the Yang's house is called the oiran road, also known as the oiran tour."

"When you come to Yang's House and meet the named guests, the oiran will start to observe the guests."

"If you don't like the guest, the oiran can leave without saying a word."

"And the money for the guest's banquet is worthless."

"Of course, there are very few oirans who do this. If you do too much of this kind of thing of leaving without saying a word, the damage to your popularity will be fatal."

"After the oiran meets the guests, he can't immediately start the romantic affairs."

"When meeting for the first time, guests can only chat and drink with the oiran, and can't do anything."

"It's the same for the second meeting."

"Guests cannot enter the oiran's boudoir until after the third meeting."

"So generally speaking, you have to meet the oiran three times before you can truly embrace the oiran."

"The oiran led a large group of people from Younv's house to Yang's house, and the expenses on the way from Yang's house to Younv's house were all borne by the guest who named the oiran."

"The cost of hosting the banquet will also be borne by the guests who name the oiran."

"so"

Speaking of this, Gua Sheng shrugged.

"Just imagine how rich a person is to be qualified to be named as an oiran."

After listening to Guasheng's introduction, A-Ming twitched the corners of his mouth and murmured:

"Is it so troublesome to meet the oiran?"

"It's so troublesome and expensive." Gua Sheng said seriously, "Therefore, in the entire Edo, probably only those wealthy merchants and warriors with annual salary of several thousand or tens of thousands of stones are eligible to be named oiran."

"It is also because there are not many people who are qualified to name the oiran, so the oiran road does not always have the opportunity to see it. Is it the first time for the two of you to come to Yoshiwara?"

"Yeah." Ogata nodded, "It's the first time."

"Then you are really lucky. The first time you come to Yoshiwara, you can see the Oiran Road. Many people have come to Yoshiwara many times, but they have never had the opportunity to see it. Ah, here we are."

Ogata and A-machi followed Guasheng to the very back of Naka-machi.

The place is crowded with people.

People who had heard the news and came to watch "Oiran Road" crowded on both sides of the road, leaving an empty street so that Oiran and her entourage could pass through the street smoothly.

Ogata looked around and saw many people wearing dark blue haori for the Shirobei Clubhouse, standing on guard at various places on the avenue.

"Let's just stand here." Gua Sheng casually squeezed into a small crowd on the west side of the street, "It's neither too close nor too far from the center of the street. It's an excellent place to watch."

Ogata and A-Ming stood at the spot chosen by Guasheng, waiting for the start of "Oiran Road", while casually chatting with Guasheng.

While Guasheng was chatting with Ogata and A-Ming, he kept his eyes on the ground and looked around, alerting the surroundings.

Ogata thought it might take a long time for the oiran to arrive.

But I didn't expect that after only about 5 minutes, "Oiran Road" began.

Ogata and the others faced the center of the street and stood on the side of the street on the west side.

So from the end of the street on their left, there were some noises coming from far and near.

Ogata turned his head, looked towards the end of the street on the left, and saw a dozen people with various masks jumping up and down, dancing funny dances there.

Looking at this group of people who looked like clowns in a circus, Ogata couldn't help asking Guasheng who was standing in front of him:

"What are these people here for?"

"They are jugglers in charge of the heat." Gua Sheng said, "Specially in charge of enlivening the atmosphere and creating momentum."

It has to be said that these artists who were in charge of activating the atmosphere did play a lot of roles.

The atmosphere of the street, where there were no other unnecessary sounds except for the small chatter, became lively in an instant.

Behind these jugglers, there are several luthiers playing shamisen. In modern terms, these luthiers are responsible for providing background music for these jugglers.

After this group of entertainers responsible for the active atmosphere passed through Ogata's eyes, several powerful and powerful men appeared within Ogata's field of vision.

These strong men all had serious eyes and held a long stick in their hands.

Even without Guasheng's introduction, Ogata knew that these strong men should be acting as bodyguards or something.

Behind these bodyguards was a middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman was holding a large cylindrical lantern with two large Chinese characters written on it, wind chimes.

"Fengling is the flower name of the only oiran in Yoshihara."

Gua Sheng introduced Ogata and Acho behind him in detail.

"Because the oiran has a supreme status, we will add the title of Taifu after the oiran's flower name.

"Look, Taifu Fengchime is here, that is Taifu Fengchime."

Gua Sheng raised his hand and pointed to the end of the street on the left.

"Those two little girls, called bald, are maidservants who are responsible for serving the oiran. They are also candidates for the oiran. They are excellent girls who are selected as one in a hundred and trained as the future oiran."

"The woman behind the two bald men is Mrs. Fengling."

"The beautiful women behind Taifu Fengling are Fusode Shinzao. You can also be understood as candidates for the oiran, but they are older than Bald."

"The older women behind Furisode Shinzo are Fantou Shinzo, who are responsible for taking care of the daily life of the oiran."

While listening carefully to Guasheng's explanation, Ogata turned his attention to the dozen or so girls who were walking slowly in the middle of the street.

Even without Guasheng's explanation, Ogata can tell at a glance who is Taifu Fengling.

Because it's so obvious.

The grandeur of Taifu Fengling's tour can be described as "hugging in front and embracing in back".

In front of them are two little girls who are carved in pink and jade and are only about 2 years old.

The two little girls had their hair tied up in a Shimada bun and were dressed in gorgeous gowns.

Whether it was Oiran and Furisode Shinzo, who were candidates for the oiran, or the oiran himself, there was a thick layer of white makeup on their faces.

The reason why white-painted makeup became popular is that there were no various lighting effects like modern ones in ancient performances, and in many cases there was only dim candlelight lighting.

If you perform in a dim environment without any makeup on, it will make your face look sallow and make it difficult to see your facial features.

So white makeup, which paints one's face white, came into being.

After painting one's face white, the visual perception and performance effect in a dark environment will be greatly improved.

It happens to be night now.

In this slightly dim environment, the white makeup on the faces of these girls does not look creepy, but feels just right, which can well outline the beautiful facial features of these girls.

The woman walking behind the two bald men is the only oiran wind chime Tai Fu in Yoshihara.

After focusing on Taifu Fengling, Taifu Fengling gave Ogata the first impression of being heavy.

It's not that Taifu Fengling is plump and looks very heavy.Although there wasn't much exposed skin, Ogata could still tell from Mrs. Fengling's fat and thin cheeks that she should be a slender person.

The reason why the first word that comes to Ogata's mind after seeing Taifu Fengchi is "heavy" is because the clothes Taifu Fengchi wears on his body, on his head, and on his feet all look quite heavy.

Oiran and Furisode Shinzo, who are candidates for the oiran, are all dressed in gorgeous clothes.

But the costumes on them are really nothing compared to those worn by the oiran.

If you tell Ogata that the clothes on Taifu Fengchi are heavier than the armor, Ogata will not be surprised at all.

Because the clothes Taifu Fengling wears are many and thick, layered on top of each other, the thickness can be compared with the cotton quilt.

Besides the body, Taifu Fengchi's head also looks quite heavy.

Mrs. Fengling's current hairstyle is a bun, and there are a lot of accessories that Ogata can't name in his hair.

According to Ogata's visual inspection, the number of these ornaments should be more than 10.

With so many accessories, it feels heavy to look at.

In addition to these ornaments on the head, the clogs on Taifu Fengling's feet also looked very heavy.

Mrs. Fengling stepped on a pair of amazingly high three-tooth clogs on her white and tender feet without socks.

According to Ogata's visual inspection, the height of these clogs should be about 30 centimeters.

According to Ogata's visual estimation, Taifu Fengling's height is probably more than 1 meters and less than 6 meters. Among women in this era, he is considered to be a very tall person.

With a height of 1.6 meters and this pair of clogs with a height of 30 centimeters, Taifu Fengling's height is almost 2 meters, and he can look down on Ogata who is only 1 meters tall.

Because the pair of clogs on Taifu Fuling's feet were so conspicuous, A-machi standing beside Ogata couldn't help but said in a surprised tone:

"What happened to those clogs?"

"The pair of clogs are called Sanmei 歯下駄." Gua Sheng said indifferently, "It can be regarded as clogs for oirans."

"It's so heavy to look at," Ah-Ming muttered, "And what kind of thing is Oiran's footwork? It's so boring."

Taifu Fengchi does not walk like a normal person.

Instead, when walking, step your feet out to the outside of your body first, draw a semicircle and then land in front of your body.

In this way, he walked slowly forward.

"This footwork is called the foreign language eight-character step." Guasheng continued to introduce, "It is a very elegant footwork. It usually takes two or three years to practice the foreign eight-character step."

"Is this gait very elegant?" A-Ming looked suspiciously up and down at Taifu Fengchi who was walking slowly forward with very rough gait, trying to find "elegance" from Taifu Fengling.

Although I don't have a deep understanding of the culture of Yoshiwara and the oiran, Ogata has heard of the special pair of clogs for the oiran.

According to what Ogata once heard, each of the oiran's special pair of clogs weighs about 5 catties.

That is to say, the oiran has to wear a pair of shoes weighing more than 10 catties to go to Yangwu, and then has to walk from Yangwu back to Younvwu.

Really hard work

Ogata couldn't help but sighed in his heart.

Because the footwork of the outer eight-character step is really grinding, it took a while for Taifu Fengling to finally walk in front of Ogata's vision.

Before and after Taifu Fengling came to Ogata, Ogata was finally able to observe Taifu Fengling's face more carefully and conveniently.

If Ogata was forced to say some words to describe Taifu Fengchi's appearance, Taifu Fengchi was like a bonfire burning in the dark.

And the bald, furisode and fantou new people around her are like moths flying around the bonfire.

As the conspicuous fire, Taifu Fengling naturally attracted the attention of everyone around him.

Even Ogata, who comes from modern times and holds the aesthetics of modern people, thinks that Taifu Fuchi is beautiful.

The beauty of Taifu Fengling is not only the beauty of appearance, but also the beauty of temperament.

Taifu Fengchi exudes a special aura.