Sanya-uma da-chin-dzuke.: (The cost of hiring horses to and from the Yoshiwara.)

The "Kinsei Kiselc,iko" (3li.H!:~Ji.J};::If) says that m the olden days young bloods who frequented the Yoshiwara used to travel to and fro on horse-back. It was also a fashion of the period to consider everything white to be tasteful. Thus the craze went so far that people fancied white horses, white sword-hilts, white leather hakama (loose pantaloons), white sleeves, and white everything else. In a book called the "Ko-uta So-makuri" (,J,PJ.U~ l: ( ~)-published in the second year of the Kwambun (1661-1672) era-the following scale of charges for horse-hire is given:-