Coincidentally I also found 廓 in the book I was reading today. One of the oddities of reading Japanese historical fiction is how many synonyms for “red light district” and related terms you run into. My jlpt deck already has 娼館, 妓楼, 泥水. 岡場所 and 遊女, and I haven’t been putting all of these words in it…
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