トルコ風呂

Japanese

Kanji in this term
風	呂
ふ > ぶ Grade: 2	ろ Grade: S
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [to̞ɾɯ̟ᵝko̞bɯ̟ᵝɾo̞]

Noun

トルコ風(ぶ)呂(ろ) • (Toruko-buro) 

1. a Turkish bath, hammam (a steam bath, or a facility offering such bathing)

   Synonym: ハンマーム (hammāmu)

   • 2014, Shiina Makoto, Istanbūru de namazu tsuri [Fishing for catfish in Istanbul], page 55:

     トルコにきてトルコなまずが釣(つ)れなかったのだから、あとはもう本(ほん)場(ば)のトルコ風(ぶ)呂(ろ)に行(い)ってみるしかない!

     Toruko ni kite Toruko namazu ga tsurenakatta no da kara, ato wa mō honba no Toruko-buro ni itte-miru shika nai!

     Since I hadn’t caught a Turkish catfish in Turkey, the only thing left to do was to try out an authentic Turkish bath!

2. (sex work, dated) a soapland (a type of brothel that ostensibly provides bathing)

   Synonym: ソープランド (sōpurando)

   • 2017, Sōpurando nyumon [Introduction to soaplands], Tokyo: Office Goryōkaku:

     歴(れき)史(し)については、日(に)本(ほん)にトルコ風(ぶ)呂(ろ)が生(う)まれる直(ちょく)前(ぜん)から夕(ゆう)刊(かん)紙(し)や週(しゅう)刊(かん)誌(し)の取(しゅ)材(ざい)記(き)者(しゃ)として活(かつ)躍(やく)し、当(とう)時(じ)の風(ふう)俗(ぞく)の最(さい)前(ぜん)線(せん)にいた広(ひろ)岡(おか)圭(けい)一(いち)氏(し)の名(めい)著(ちょ)『トルコロジートルコ風(ぶ)呂(ろ)専(せん)門(もん)記(き)者(しゃ)の報(ほう)告(こく)』がある。

     Rekishi ni tsuite wa, Nihon ni Toruko-buro ga umareru chokuzen kara yūkanshi ya shūkanshi no shuzai kisha to shite katsuyaku shi, tōji no fūzoku no saizensen ni ita Hirōka Keīchi shi no meicho “Torukorojī Toruko-buro senmon kisha no hōkoku” ga aru.

     For history there is a famous book, Report of a specialist in Turkology and Turkish baths, by Keiichi Hirooka, a reporter for evening newspapers and weekly magazines at the time when Turkish baths were newly established in Japan and were at the forefront of the sex industry.