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Capture Your Beauty in Stunning Oiran Style at Studio Yairo

If you’ve ever dreamed of experiencing the elegance of a traditional Oiran and preserving it in a timeless photo, Studio Yairo is the place for you.

Located in Chiba City, Studio Yairo specializes in authentic Oiran-style photography with careful preparation and professional shooting to bring out your unique charm. Our experienced and friendly staff will guide you every step of the way, so even first-time visitors can feel completely at ease.

You can explore the mood and quality of our photo sessions on our official Instagram. Feel free to take a look!

The studio is just a 1-minute walk from the nearest station, with convenient access. There’s also a nearby coin parking lot, so you’re welcome to come by car as well.

For questions or reservations, feel free to contact us via email. We look forward to welcoming you soon!

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Prologue — A Sea of Lanterns and Shadow: The Entertainment District as Stage

Night over Yoshiwara’s entertainment district. Countless lanterns sway in the wind, and stone-paved alleys twist like a maze. Moving among strolling patrons, a oiran in a sumptuous uchikake proceeds with poise. Each sway of her front-tied obi leaves a sweet trace of fragrance in the air. Beneath the glitter and bustle runs a current you cannot see—cold and silent—and it becomes the machinery of this tale.

Guided by the Sound Hashira, Tengen Uzui, Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and Inosuke Hashibira infiltrate the district to investigate a string of disappearances. Uzui’s wives—Hinatsuru, Makio, and Suma—have already gone in to gather intelligence, but contact is spotty. Tanjiro steadies his breathing deep in his chest, Zenitsu darts restless glances down each alleyway, and Inosuke reads even the height of the beams and the hollow ring beneath the floors by instinct.

Chapter One — Infiltration and Omens: Beneath the Oiran’s Smile

The Three Enter the Okiya

The trio disguise themselves as women and enter three different okiya. Tanjiro goes to Tokito House, Zenitsu to Kyogoku House, and Inosuke to Ogimoto House. Inosuke’s refined features stand out in particular, and with makeup applied he looks every bit a true oiran, to everyone’s surprise. Tanjiro, awkward but diligent, learns to handle hems and fans, while Zenitsu’s keen hearing earns him a role assisting with the shamisen.

Two Faces of Day and Night

By day they are consumed by hairdressing, makeup, and fittings; by night, lights blaze all at once. Before the houses, high-ranking oiran greet patrons with composed smiles, and on days of the oiran dōchū procession, waves of tall clogs and brocaded uchikake halt the street. As he works, Tanjiro notices that the scent trail always vanishes at the same alley—snuffed out as if the odor were being swallowed by the ground.

Whispers and Disappearances

There are rumors that a once-famous oiran vanished without a trace. At night, something can be heard sliding in that room, they say. While playing shamisen, Zenitsu hears the beat lag unnaturally beyond the wall. Tapping the boards behind the houses, Inosuke senses an odd, sprawling cavity beneath the floor. Beneath the bright laughter, the silence grows dense.

Chapter Two — Warabihime Oiran: A Parlor Where Sashes Run

The Intimidation of the House Star

Tanjiro encounters Kyogoku House’s star oiran, Warabihime. Her makeup is flawless, her bearing elegant, her smile thin. When a single dish falls, the entire parlor seems to freeze. Bowing low, Tanjiro catches a faint iron smell etched into the tatami weave. There is something beneath that perfect floral mask.

The Corridor of Obi

A coded message from Hinatsuru points to an unnatural passageway in the house’s understructure. Tanjiro goes beneath the floor, Inosuke into the walls, Zenitsu from the ceiling. Converging from three directions, they find it: a corridor of “obi”—slick as silk, hard as steel. It swallows people and objects and spits them out into other rooms: a living labyrinth of sashes.

Daki Revealed

Warabihime Oiran is in truth Upper Rank Six, Daki. The obi are her very body. Floral weaves gleam eerily in the lamplight, each strip a weapon. Daki smiles in the parlor and strokes a sash with a fingertip. “You children made it far,” she says. The smile is breathtakingly beautiful, yet holds a cold abyss.

Chapter Three — The First Cut: Night Splits Apart

Release and Clash

When Tanjiro severs the sashes, the wall splits open and those imprisoned within the obi spill out. Zenitsu drops from the ceiling and, with a plucked-string sharpness, slices a joint in the sash; Inosuke, blades reversed, tears open the knot. The corridor roars in rage. Daki rises, sleeves shifting almost imperceptibly. With the gait of a perfect oiran and the speed of a demon, she closes the distance.

Breath at Its Peak

Tanjiro lowers his blade and measures his breathing. The obi skim the lattice of the shōji, the air splits—and he reads that instant with his sense of smell and slips in the blade. Sparks fly; a short gasp; a thin sneer. The battle spills from parlor to rooftop, from rooftop to alley. Lanterns shatter; the perfume in the air is replaced by dust.

The First Head

With Zenitsu and Inosuke’s support, Tanjiro’s stroke reaches Daki’s neck. A high ring; a head floating in the air. Yet the head laughs and the city’s air grows suddenly cold. “Is that all?” a voice asks, as a bone-thin hand stretches out of the dark.

Chapter Four — Siblings: The Shadow of Gyutaro

Upper Rank Six Is Two-in-One

Out of the darkness emerges Gyutaro: pallid skin and two sickles dripping with poison. The brother who hid inside his sister’s body appears, and the night gains weight. To defeat them, both must be beheaded at the same time; they cover each other’s weaknesses as one.

The Sound Hashira Joins

“Time to make it flashy.” Tengen Uzui drops from the roof. The glitter of his ornaments evokes a lavish oiran heading to a soirée, and the exploding beats are a drummer’s cue that breaks the enemy’s rhythm. With Sound Breathing, he reads Gyutaro’s tempo and brings his comrades’ breaths into the same beat.

The Three Wives on the Move

Hinatsuru creates openings with poisoned kunai; Makio races to rescue the wounded; Suma, teary-eyed, keeps hauling people to safety. Their knowledge of the district’s back alleys and parlor layouts holds the line.

Chapter Five — Nezuko’s Flame: Salvation by Scorching Heat

When the Box Opens

At the instant Daki’s sash is about to pierce Tanjiro’s chest, the box on his back opens and Nezuko leaps out. Her blood ignites, and the flames purify the sashes. Daki’s eyes fly wide; Gyutaro’s tongue-click stops. Nezuko curls around her brother to shield him; Tanjiro grips her shoulder and whispers, “Please come back.” The flames subside, and the night breeze slowly regains its warmth.

Chapter Six — A Single Stroke in Unison: The Beat of Victory

Hearts in the Same Measure

The condition for victory is “simultaneity.” Uzui’s explosions create an opening; Tanjiro goes for the neck; Zenitsu splits the sashes with thunder; Inosuke guards a diagonal path. For one instant, the three breaths align. Tiles crumble, beams break, and the night trembles.

Falling Sickles, Unraveling Sashes

Gyutaro crosses his sickles to block, but Uzui’s blade slips slightly above them and Tanjiro’s blade reaches the vertebrae. Daki lashes out one last sash, but Zenitsu’s lightning burns it through. Inosuke’s shout splits the night, and two necks fall in the same moment. Sound vanishes; only the wind remains.

Chapter Seven — The Past: Siblings Lit by Fire

Ume and the Boy

At the brink of death, the two remember. The shadowed alleys, stones, jeers, hunger. The sister Ume was beautiful, and the brother was gaunt. Beauty was both blessing and curse. One night Ume was burned, the brother screamed, and the world turned into an enemy. They walked a road without salvation, and at its end chose to become demons.

Flower and Shadow

Ume later stands at the center of the parlor as a oiran, but her blossom has lost its warmth, and the brother stands as shadow. Beyond the flames they trade insults, then take each other’s hand. A thousand “what ifs” surface and fade. Tanjiro closes his eyes and lets out a breath that holds both pain and prayer.

Chapter Eight — Dawn: Life on the Rubble

Tengen Uzui’s Decision

Uzui suffers grievous wounds and loses an arm and an eye. “Flashy isn’t necessary. A quiet life will do,” he says with a smile, flanked by his three wives. The ornate ornaments are gone from his back, but a light still resides in him.

Lights Return, Tears Remain

At daybreak, the district fills with the sounds of cleaning up. Someone picks up a broken hairpin and wipes it with a sleeve. The streets will light up again, and in time oiran will bind their hair and walk in tall clogs once more. The tears beneath the laughter remain, and everyone in the town knows it.

Breath of Companions

Zenitsu rubs sleep from his eyes, Inosuke thumps his chest and laughs, and Nezuko yawns and returns to the box. Tanjiro gazes at the sunrise through the cracks in the rubble and bows his head deeply. “Thank you for surviving,” he says, softly but surely.

Chapter Nine — Scenes of the Alley: An Ordinary Step Forward

Traces Left on the Stone

The stone pavement is cold; shards of glass glint in the morning sun. Fabric sways at the eaves, and a cat curls atop a crate. In some parlor, teacups are being stacked; far away, a shamisen string is being tightened. Tanjiro pauses and draws both the night’s remnants and the morning’s beginning into his chest.

The Oiran Walk Again

When a high-ranking oiran walks the night again, these alleys will take on another hue. Last night’s tears may vanish into the light of morning. Even so, they were there. To remember, Tanjiro takes one more step forward.

Chapter Ten — Onward: To the Swordsmith Village

The Story Continues

The mission is over, and preparations begin for the next. Nezuko sleeps quietly; Zenitsu mutters complaints; Inosuke puffs out his chest. Tanjiro checks the weight of the box on his back and catches the faint scent of a distant flame in the morning air. The story goes on. For now, a deep breath of the quiet morning is enough.

Terms and Scenes (Organizing Elements Mentioned Naturally in the Story)

The Figure of the Oiran

An oiran stands at the pinnacle of the courtesans, possessing arts, learning, and etiquette. The front-tied obi, tall clogs, sumptuous uchikake, and hair ornaments are not mere decoration; they are signs of her station and pride. In the main plot, Daki wears these trappings as a mask, embodying the precarious line where blossom and brutality coexist.

The Meaning of the Obi

The obi supports the torso and draws the gaze with a frontal design. Turning Daki’s obi into weapons symbolizes how floral beauty and shadowed function are two sides of the same coin.

Capture Your Beauty in Stunning Oiran Style at Studio Yairo

If you’ve ever dreamed of experiencing the elegance of a traditional Oiran and preserving it in a timeless photo, Studio Yairo is the place for you.

Located in Chiba City, Studio Yairo specializes in authentic Oiran-style photography with careful preparation and professional shooting to bring out your unique charm. Our experienced and friendly staff will guide you every step of the way, so even first-time visitors can feel completely at ease.

You can explore the mood and quality of our photo sessions on our official Instagram. Feel free to take a look!

The studio is just a 1-minute walk from the nearest station, with convenient access. There’s also a nearby coin parking lot, so you’re welcome to come by car as well.

For questions or reservations, feel free to contact us via email. We look forward to welcoming you soon!