ソープランド

Japanese

Etymology

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from soap +‎ land.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ソープラ​ンド [sòópúráꜜǹdò] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [so̞ːpɯ̟ᵝɾã̠ndo̞]

Noun

ソープランド • (sōpurando) 

  1. soapland, a massage parlor (a bathhouse where customers pay for sex; a type of brothel)
    • 1997, Murakami Ryū, Tenisu Bōi no yūutsu [The melancholy of Tennis Boy], page 78:
      「うーん、でもあんたはソープランドなんか向(む)かないよ」
      “Ūn, de mo anta wa sōpurando nanka mukanai yo”
      “No, but you don’t go to soaplands eh.”
      「よく行(い)くの？」
      “Yoku iku no?”
      “Do you go often?”
      「え？ソープランド？行(い)かないよ、嫌(きら)いなんだ」 […] テニスボーイは倫(りん)理(り)的(てき)に恥(は)ずかしかったわけではない。ソープランドで処(しょ)理(り)するもてない男(おとこ)、と思(おも)われるのがいやだったのだ。
      “E? Sōpurando? Ikanai yo, kirai nan da” […] Tenisu Bōi wa rinriteki ni hazukashikatta wake de wa nai. Sōpurando de shori suru motenai otoko, to omowareru no ga iya datta no da.
      “Huh? Soapland? I don’t go, I hate it.” […] Tennis Boy wasn’t embarrassed for ethical reasons. He just didn’t want to think that he was a man who couldn’t handle soapland.

Descendants
  • → English: soapland

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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