垢あか掻かき

noun

female bathhouse attendant (Edo period); bathhouse scrubber and sex worker

Historical term for a woman who washed customers at public baths and also provided sexual services; often associated with 湯女 (ゆな).

See also: 湯女

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの銭せん湯とうでは、垢あか掻かきと呼よばれる女じょ性せいが客きゃくの背せ中なかを流ながした。

  At public baths in the Edo period, women called akakaki washed customers' backs.

• 垢あか掻かきは湯女ゆなと同どう様ように、性せい的てきなサービスも提てい供きょうすることがあった。

  Like yuna, akakaki sometimes also offered sexual services.