2022 Volume 28 Issue 69 Pages 882-887
In the early Showa period, there were 60,000 ryoteis and 20,000 okiyas and 80,000 geishas. Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi had many geishas, but the number of geisha per capita was the highest in Ishikawa. The number of geisha decreased during the Showa Depression and increased during the Sino-Japanese War. In Aichi, most of machiai-chayas were in Nagoya. Nagoya had many ryoteis, okiyas and geishas, but the number of geisha per capita exceeded Nagoya’s one in some areas. In Aichi, few areas had the changes in the number of geisha were on downward trends.
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