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Here in Finland we used to have public saunas in towns like in Japan there are the baths. In those there were washer women, that worked both in women's and men's turns washing customers. Not years of training though... Today public saunas are much fewer as apartment hauses tend to have a house sauna and people living in the building can reserve a turn, or there are built-in saunas in every apartment. Still there are few public saunas left but washer women are gone.
Inns in the “old west” also offered a services like that, at least from what I’ve read in some novels, but I assume it quickly devolved into prostitution and stopped altogether.
It was not stopped, prostitution was entirely legal and encouraged during western development. Brothel Madams often held prominent positions in towns that would practically spring up around them.
If you take a look at the old pictures of Japanese public baths, you can find men in the women’s bathing room. However, this was not a mixed bath, and the man was a professional who washed the bodies of customers, called 三助 Sansuké. Sansuké begins his training with a few years of work, collecting firewood to heat the baths and arranging the customers' clothes and shoes. Around the second year, they would start working as a bath heater, and from the third year, they were finally able to move on to washing customers' bodies. It was hard physical work, taking more than 10 years to be called a full-fledged worker. It is said that sansuké was quite a popular profession, and if they were favored, they sometimes received tips from customers. Us today might feel some hesitance, but in those days it was a kind of status to be washed by a professional sansuké. However, sansuké soon disappeared due to most of them going into management, and being restricted due to some people offering sexual services. There is only one place in Japan today where a sansuké is still operating. If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe! *The content is based on personal studies and experience There is no intention of denying other theories and cultural aspects
I love how you do a transcript of your videos. The RUclips Closed Captions are really bad sometimes. This is a nice extra step for your hearing impaired fans.
It's less "the ones who couldn't help themselves" and more the inevitable result of the work having fuzzy boundaries between it and more erotic work + "the customer is always right" + tipping that made the eventual offering of "extra services" basically inevitable as we see with massages. What ruined it was people caring too much about what consenting adults were doing in private...as is so often the case.
No matter what’s that thing in Japan it always takes decades to master 😢 Edited: thanks to 6.6 k people for agreeing with my sarcastic statement.. Love for Japan 🇯🇵 ❤️
Man I love your shorts so much. Because of my focus and attention issues I have a hard time with longer videos, yet so put so much information into just a few seconds in a way that's easy to understand and helps me learn a lot. Very grateful!
you are definitely my favourite shorts channel cos I LOVE the Japanese culture and your videos help me find out more about Japanese history so thank you so much
Seeing how nowadays the difficulty would be the gender difference, I really hope that this art will be passed on to a new generation where both men and women can become sansuké (and so go on to provide service to customers of their own gender). This way it could be preserved in a form it can be practised today, yet as authentically as possible, by passionate people who won't make it into a front for the prostitution it isn't supposed to be.
I really wish public bathhouses were a thing in the west. Lots of apartments these days only have showers, but I love my baths. It just wouldn't work here. Less people bath here, rather they shower. And there isn't the same standard of washing yourself before entering a pool or hot tub here. There are showers and notices asking people to rinse off before they enter, but no one is cleaning thoroughly and many people skip it altogether. That's why pools and hot tubs in North America are all strongly chlorinated.
Does it take anything less than 10 years to be a professional person in any occupation in Japan? Dedication to duty seems pretty hard wired in Japanese culture!
Reminds me of an anime/webtoon of something like this, they were competing to be efficient at removing deadskin from spa goers to be the top person to inherit the bathhouse I forgot the name or if it was an anime :P
When I was In japan, i went to a small local onsen (i cant remember where, but not a city) with my sister. We were the youngest women there by at least 40-50 years (we were late/early 20s). The grandmas were at first shocked to see two westerners in there local onsen, but my sister spoke excellent Japanese and before long they were our best friends, and physically scrubbed us down with wash cloths to show us the "correct way" to prepare for the baths. It was awsom. Bless those grannies.
Hey dude, thanks for your videos. Can I ask you a question? What do you think about (Samurai Jack)? It's really cool Cartoon Network show from early 2000's. It's big part of my childhood and I'm interested how realistically represented all the samurai stuff are?. And you are kind of expert, so please check it out and tell what you think. Thanks for all your content and stay cool.
This inspires me to work hard if i was in japab in that time period no matter how hard that job is i will strive to become a professional and serve people like those before me no other reason at all
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What kind of......tips were they giving?
I wonder if there was a similar job for women, but cleaning men's bodies, because I've seen it in fiction but I don't know if it's true.
“Sansuke was very a popular job” hmmm I wonder whyyyyy
hmmm... maybe because of the pay... I'm not too sure... tho I too am tempted to apply
I was gonna comment the same 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You heard the man, ppl offer them *tips*
because he can wash men body
Now this looks like a job for me
The real reason Sasuke left the village.
😮
@@LetsaskShogo Sansuké Uchiha
O
I'm crying
💀
They were already into megapixels at that stage.
Japanese censorship in a nutshell
The pixels were of mega size, basically.
I’d probably trust them more if it was that tedious to get to that position.
Same
I wouldn't. Just playing the long game
Fair enough, like it takes years to get that far into the job initially
@@dflaming1371 Plus, it's still a job. Might as well get paid progressing to your goal.
Yeah and you know what they say, when you do something as a job it just isn't fun anymore
Now I know what secret arts Sasuke was tryna learn from Orochimaru
Fun fact, Orochimaru can be translated to "Big snake-maru" with "maru" being a common thing added to male names
😂😂😂
🤣
@@ZenoDLC so something like Big Snake Man
@@ZenoDLC big snakeson
For some reason the tips part sounds very sus to me
😅
Just a tip
@@thecommentguy9380 And cue the 'Archer' reference.
@@thecommentguy9380
just the tip*
@@thecommentguy9380 just a "tip"👀😉
Here in Finland we used to have public saunas in towns like in Japan there are the baths. In those there were washer women, that worked both in women's and men's turns washing customers. Not years of training though... Today public saunas are much fewer as apartment hauses tend to have a house sauna and people living in the building can reserve a turn, or there are built-in saunas in every apartment. Still there are few public saunas left but washer women are gone.
Shitting and crying myself to sleep rn 😢
@@Noggg. No washer women anymore ;-;
@@alface935 no sansuke too
@@trustyrusty6969 ;-;
@@alface935 they ain't givin me my bubbler bathe nun more😭
Inns in the “old west” also offered a services like that, at least from what I’ve read in some novels, but I assume it quickly devolved into prostitution and stopped altogether.
I didn’t know about that!
That extra 50c in Red Dead Redemption 2 😉
@@tgillies101 🤨
How crazy that they turned the bathing services from Red Dead Redemption into the real thing!!
It was not stopped, prostitution was entirely legal and encouraged during western development. Brothel Madams often held prominent positions in towns that would practically spring up around them.
If you take a look at the old pictures of Japanese public baths, you can find men in the women’s bathing room. However, this was not a mixed bath, and the man was a professional who washed the bodies of customers, called 三助 Sansuké.
Sansuké begins his training with a few years of work, collecting firewood to heat the baths and arranging the customers' clothes and shoes. Around the second year, they would start working as a bath heater, and from the third year, they were finally able to move on to washing customers' bodies. It was hard physical work, taking more than 10 years to be called a full-fledged worker.
It is said that sansuké was quite a popular profession, and if they were favored, they sometimes received tips from customers. Us today might feel some hesitance, but in those days it was a kind of status to be washed by a professional sansuké.
However, sansuké soon disappeared due to most of them going into management, and being restricted due to some people offering sexual services. There is only one place in Japan today where a sansuké is still operating.
If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe!
*The content is based on personal studies and experience
There is no intention of denying other theories and cultural aspects
I love how you do a transcript of your videos. The RUclips Closed Captions are really bad sometimes. This is a nice extra step for your hearing impaired fans.
@aDBo'Ch 1 Indeed. Wish I could afford to move to Japan. Once he becomes a trainer. I would definitely be there.
I wonder why it's a popular job
Looking at those traditional pictures I'm more impressed they had Minecraft all those years ago...
@@pirateadam3686 Why? It's allowed in countries other stuff isnt.
Leave it to the ones who couldn’t help themselves to destroy that possibility for others.
mf nobody would be doing it for any other reason that to look at women
"destroy that possibility" as if they reminded the teacher to give out homework
Well, Japan took on a bunch of western conservatism after they were invaded. Not to say Japan was particularly liberal but it was in certain respects.
It's less "the ones who couldn't help themselves" and more the inevitable result of the work having fuzzy boundaries between it and more erotic work + "the customer is always right" + tipping that made the eventual offering of "extra services" basically inevitable as we see with massages.
What ruined it was people caring too much about what consenting adults were doing in private...as is so often the case.
@@dynamicworlds1 Now that last bit I will agree on.
It was more of Western influence. If the Samurai won the fight there? Things like this would exist commonly
No matter what’s that thing in Japan it always takes decades to master 😢
Edited: thanks to 6.6 k people for agreeing with my sarcastic statement..
Love for Japan 🇯🇵 ❤️
I think it's in every country, though I suppose Japan stands out for being conspicuous about it.
I still have room to grow in first-person shooters
@@iPlayOnSpica agree with you 🙂
@@iPlayOnSpica
1 year to master sidearm switching
3 years to master pulling the trigger
10 years to master yelling at all your teammates
That’s so true🤣
@@LetsaskShogo thanks for reply Shogo and now can you tell me how much I need to wait to propose my Japanese crush.. ?
“to master the art of ❤️”
“Offered tips” I’m sure they were Shogo. I’m sure they were 😂
😂😂😂
A happy ending indeed
What’s shogo?
@@rushabhchheda2582 the youtubers’ name
oh wow that's some dedication to scrubbing
You being here just shifted my imagination and you know why is that
@@pentakill5769 I have to go back and teach the new Konoha generation
The sheer will to restrain your body's will
Exactly
@@pentakill5769 Huh?
Jiraiya: he has learned from the master. I'm so proud 🤧
😂😂
😳
Sasuke left the village to pursue his dreams
Fr fr
That one place the next day:
*10,000 PEOPLE ON THE WAITING LIST*
I think I'd be torn between feeling uncomfortable, and feeling like a princess.
Man I love your shorts so much. Because of my focus and attention issues I have a hard time with longer videos, yet so put so much information into just a few seconds in a way that's easy to understand and helps me learn a lot. Very grateful!
I’m really glad you say so!
Gotta respect the grind
Just as bad as OSRS. IYKYK.
...I can't tell if that Innuendo was intentional
@@dynamicworlds1 🤣 It was.
@@dragonrune6800 Worse. It takes like half that time to max in OSRS
I see what you did there😂
you are definitely my favourite shorts channel cos I LOVE the Japanese culture and your videos help me find out more about Japanese history so thank you so much
Thank YOU so much for watching😉
Worth the grind you invested to become sansuke.
I could smell the comments
When i was a kid and watched anime, I always wanted to be a samurai or ninja. Now I'm older, I realized I want to be sansuke more than anything
Majority of your customers will be old soggy men and women, since theyre the ones who can most likely afford the services
@@dearestdoppio8554 Where there’s a hole, there’s a goal
Me:
"Yeah, uh, I'm a professional m'am!"
Bath Owner:
" Hey! Who are you? What are you doing here?"
At first I met that thought with a LOT of resistance, but it makes a lot more sense when you explain it.
Well done short, Shogo!
I thought the answer would be that they were blind masseurs (anma/按摩), but this is the first time I've heard of sansuke
I really love Japan and all of this unique cultural figures, thank you for all your videos, from an Italian fan.
"Sansuke was quite a popular profession"
Yeah I see why
Okay, where's that place, and can I join up? Traditions need to be kept alive here, man.
Teacher: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Me:
Cool pictures, I really enjoyed looking at all the details drawn.
I like the part where he says "It's washin time" and proceeds to wash all customers
ME TOO! I literally cried! 11/10, one of the moments of all time
SANSUKEEEE!!!!
NARNUTOOOO!!!
i'm sorry, gonna leave now
SANSUKE! Can you scrub my back?😉
This is the reason why every girl in the hidden leaf
village was behind Sasuke
"I got a job down at the bath house as a Sansuke for $2 an hour."
"that's not much."
"It's all I could afford."
10 whole YEARS...
+ The salary isn’t high
@@mc4952 + tips
Seems worth it
Very interesting. Like always, those professions in Japan took years to be trained in
Those Sansuke is true Chad. No simp, work for life, work for 10 years streak to get that position
So spirited away? XD
Hmm, actually a decent conparison.
Spirited Away but with nudity
Seeing how nowadays the difficulty would be the gender difference, I really hope that this art will be passed on to a new generation where both men and women can become sansuké (and so go on to provide service to customers of their own gender). This way it could be preserved in a form it can be practised today, yet as authentically as possible, by passionate people who won't make it into a front for the prostitution it isn't supposed to be.
Who would be passionate about washing strangers if they were not a perv 😭😂
“There’s still one in Japan”
Ferb, I know what we’re going to do today
Every perv: Now this looks like a job to me
"Hard physical labor."
Yes, hard.
I think having a nice person to properly exfoliate your back would be amazing! I’m kind of envious!
Wow, interesting as always !!!
“Ferb I know what we’re going to do today!”
Sanji : I should've changed my name to sansuke
Now I know more about the washing the back trope in anime, it's more than just fanservice , it's a reflection of the old culture
In an alternate timeline
Jiraya, the legendary sansuké
Jariyah would wanna learn from young Sasuke
Some of them got the customer's tip somehow feels awkward in this conversation 🗿
Love learning factoids like this. Suddenly Spirited Away makes a little more sense.
I am going to abandon my dream to be the Hokage..
Instead
I’ll begin on my path to be a sansuke
We need to bring these back! Being washed by someone is beyond relaxing
That's pretty close to Sauske, now we know what he was really up to.
I really wish public bathhouses were a thing in the west. Lots of apartments these days only have showers, but I love my baths.
It just wouldn't work here. Less people bath here, rather they shower. And there isn't the same standard of washing yourself before entering a pool or hot tub here. There are showers and notices asking people to rinse off before they enter, but no one is cleaning thoroughly and many people skip it altogether.
That's why pools and hot tubs in North America are all strongly chlorinated.
The second I heard the name “Sansuke” I paused and rushed to the comment 😂
Me to😂
In Japan, skill is directly proportional to the number of years you worked on it.
WE'RE GOING TO THE SANSUKE LADIES
I loved the part when Sasuke said "Sansuke'n time" and proceeds to Sansuke everyone including Naruto.. truly a Masterpiece
Does it take anything less than 10 years to be a professional person in any occupation in Japan? Dedication to duty seems pretty hard wired in Japanese culture!
I wish we lived in a society that followed some of these older practices
I finally have a purpose in life, this is my destiny
Hahaha hesitate today! Oh you crack me up. Thanks Shogo. Also love history anyhow. 😁
Sansuké: I don't know where I am, but there is this kid with yellow hair yelling "dattebayo" and telling me to return to the village
I love learning more about Japan and I love your content❤
Takes Sasuke Uchia to the next level
"To wash customers' bodies... It was hard work"💀
10 years of work to be called professional?!
I imagine it would weed out the lazy pervs, just like in levels of massage
Just feudal Japan doing its own thing
I really love your video ! Your video is always captivating !
Wow last time I wanna be a massage therapist and a tattoo artist now I wanna be sanske
I’m glad that I found this channel I always get to know so much about Japan 😁
Reminds me of an anime/webtoon of something like this, they were competing to be efficient at removing deadskin from spa goers to be the top person to inherit the bathhouse
I forgot the name or if it was an anime :P
First Berlin now Japan’s one and only Sansuke, people love the services and the freedom of some places.
Wow, ancient times were really pixelated...
Imagine how it feels to be the last sansuke alive.
I’m surprised Boruto’s Dad’s master didn’t try and become one of these guys
When I was In japan, i went to a small local onsen (i cant remember where, but not a city) with my sister. We were the youngest women there by at least 40-50 years (we were late/early 20s). The grandmas were at first shocked to see two westerners in there local onsen, but my sister spoke excellent Japanese and before long they were our best friends, and physically scrubbed us down with wash cloths to show us the "correct way" to prepare for the baths. It was awsom. Bless those grannies.
Sexual services? Sounds to me they had some Japanese Johnny Sins.
You gave informational stuff.
Subscribed.👍
Hey dude, thanks for your videos. Can I ask you a question? What do you think about (Samurai Jack)? It's really cool Cartoon Network show from early 2000's. It's big part of my childhood and I'm interested how realistically represented all the samurai stuff are?.
And you are kind of expert, so please check it out and tell what you think.
Thanks for all your content and stay cool.
Shogo: And I... am that Sansuke.
"If lucky they received *tips* from the customer"
Me: Just the *tip* ?
This inspires me to work hard if i was in japab in that time period no matter how hard that job is i will strive to become a professional and serve people like those before me no other reason at all
What an interesting tradition! It’s too bad it’s mostly gone now.
How do I get this job
I like how the video was winding down and right at the end you hit us with the fact there's ONE LEFT
So this is where all those massage adult videos come from…
Shogo: Sansuke was a very popular job.
Me: Oh I believe you.
Tell me... TELLL ME WHERE THAT LAST OPERATING SANSUKE IS, I NEED MY RESUME
Every time I hear sasuke I just think of every time ponyo says sasuke including that one sense where ponyo talks for the first time to saskue
*Jiraiya has entered the chat
i love your videos they are very informative love japan's rich culture and heritage ❤️
i wish to live there someday:))
*Multi tasking in japan intensifies**
"It was hard physical work". Oh it was *hard* all right.;)
Him: sunsukeeeeee
Me: Narutooooooo
Totally worth 3 years of training for such a simple task
"Received tips" 😏
Seems like a win win situation for the sansuke.