oiran
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Etymology[edit]
From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.
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oiran (plural oiran or oirans)
- A high-status courtesan in Japan.
- 2002, Donald Richie, The Inland Sea, Stone Bridge Press, page 192:
- The oiran of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art.
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