- からゆきさん
- からゆき(さん)【唐行き(さん)】〔明治から昭和初期, 南方へ出稼ぎに行った女性〕 a karayuki san; young Japanese girls sent abroad to work (as prostitutes) from the Meiji to the early Shōwa period.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.
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