It was also considered the center of Edo Period (1603-1867) cultural life. If anyone could be said to have put Yoshiwara on the map, it was the bookseller, publisher and visionary Tsutaya Juzaburo.

An Edo State resident, Irabor Osarumwense, nicknamed Daniel Craig and James Bond was on Thursday, convicted and sentenced to two years by the Federal High Court in Benin City, the state capital.