This is a book, but you can read the first chapter here and it will make you want to buy the book!
Its wonderful, it floats you back intime and you are there sitting next to the women of pleasure. lol

"Having heard that a certain lady was very beautiful or, even more titillating, had beautiful handwriting, a nobleman would sit down to compose a waka, a thirty-one-syllable poem, and brush it, in his finest calligraphy, on delicately hued scented paper.

When she received it, the lady would assess the handwriting and color of the paper as well as the wit and appropriateness of the poem before brushing a reply.

The nobleman would be waiting with bated breath to see whether her handwriting and poem lived up to expectations."

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Women of the Pleasure Quarters