. . . "For the Yoshiwara nightclub in the 1927 Fritz Lang film see Metropolis.For the locality in Mumbai, see OshiwaraYoshiwara (\u5409\u539F) was a famous y\u016Bkaku (\u904A\u5ED3\u3001\u904A\u90ED, pleasure district, red-light district) in Edo, present-day T\u014Dky\u014D, Japan.In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka. To counter this, an order of Tokugawa Hidetada of the Tokugawa shogunate restricted prostitution to designated city districts."@en . .