EPICANTHUS

Experimental Japanese electropop group Omodaka uses the enka stylings of Akiko Kanazawa as it re-imagines Tokyo’s Yoshiwara red light district from the Edo period (1603-1868) via boingboing/Lisa Katayama

• Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan, by Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1993.