Irozate Mitokoro Zetai (Families of three neighborhoods of pleasure) is a work by Ihara Saikaku, a Japanese writer who lived in the 17th century.
This work is the account of the failure of a wealthy brothel account but, unlike other works by Saikaku, Teruoka Yasukata has been described as "overly vulgar and obscene", thus falling to the lowest level of Saikaku.
Saikaku's other novels, beginning with the life of a libertine (Koshoku ichidai otoko), barely contain a passage that can offend today's readers. But in Irozato Mitokoro Zetai (Three Families of Pleasure Quarters) the mechanical description of the orges becomes strongly erotic, not having the verve of Life of a libertine or the love of Five Loving Women (Koshoko gonin onna). In the end, hero of the novel, Sotoemon, having squandered his fortune in the Kyoto, Osaka and Edo (present Tokyo) pleasure quarters, dies with "sexual exhaustion" along with his companion at that time. >
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