There is a lot of women in the bureaucracy, who lived in the “Ōoku” have the number of “in the shogunate era has more than a thousand people!”, Probably the situation is the general side of the room are elected from here. Will be outside the halo of men into the “Ōoku” is absolutely not to be forgiven, to the night of the “Ōoku” is like every day repeated staged “steeped in wine and surrounded by women”
The center of the city of Edo – the pill (now the north side of the imperial house of the East), plus the side of the words, the girls were selected to take care of them.
The staff employed to add about 300 to 400 people, plus all the other members should add up to 600 to 700 people living in the “Ōoku”.
Ukiyo-e depiction of the Ōoku (by Hashimoto Chikanobu)
