Vacation in Bakumatsu

Let's see now,
where was I?
oh yeah. So I was doing the usual tourist things in the Bakumatsu Region (see previous Horror Night post :)

Like.... psst.. Mister, you want some sandals? ummm, I don't know... maybe if you buy five pairs, I might consider it?

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hehe;p nah, that's me at Kyoto's Mibu Temple showing off the handheld flipflops that come with the new :sey Hadash! barefeet package (see Risey's earlier post for that one=^.^=
The featured dress: the girly and so Summer-y We Love Lace from u.f.o (ur favorite one) by Charming Meiler, and the YumYum straw hat (one of my favorites since last year, and not the new Straw Hat that a lot of people have asked me about in our FlipFlops Necklace poster). The bunny mask is also from YumYum - I found that at the Summer Festival celebrating the renewal of the iTuTu SIM, our former neighbors, remember?^^

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In front of the main gate of Kyoto's Shimabara, which along with Tokyo's Yoshiwara, reigned as the classiest legal brothels disctricts in Japan until the 19th century. Unlike the Geisha who see themselves first as performing artists, the women who worked here took pride in their profession, providing quality intimacy to the highest paying clientele ^.~













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with reservations and no small amount of apprehension, it took all the courage she could find, taking her first step into the guilded cage that was the Shimabara....







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NOTE: The Bakumatsu SIMs are rated Mature and NOT Adult. There are rooms for rent in Shimabara, but they are strictly residential apartments. NO soliciting, NO escorting here bunnies =^.~=b

You will find many references to prostitution here, but it's not just that these brothels are an important part of the period culture, they became the stages for some of the most critical turning points in history.







As dusk falls once again over Shimabara, in her chamber, she counts the lanterns being lighted, one and then another. But she will soon loose interest, and going back to lazily toying with her candied apricot....











View of Nagasaki, seen from the top floor of the samurai castle donjon - you can see the castle itself in the background above
The masts you see are those of Kanrin-maru, the steamed powered sailship that took Katsu Kaishu on his emissary voyage to America. The entourage included many young men who would later become the architects of Modern Japan, including Fukuzawa Yukichi, the founder of Keio University.
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These last two shots feature the LF Top set within the :SEY LF package. It's one of our earliest items, and I've had these since way before joining :SEY. I love it, and I think it's a classic, although I think Risey would have done it even better now. But then, this piece is from happier times when we didn't have to worry about copybots and stuff, so they're manually editable prim by prim. Here, I just changed the transparency a bit for Windlight, but you can do a lot more fitting and mix-matching old school style =^.^=b

That's all for tonight, folks!
Oh! Forgot to remind you that Risey has new Group Gifts ready. Something that us girls can use, too XD, so stay tuned for release info!
Cya! - Megg
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