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In this paper, I examined the representation of the Korean licensed quarter(朝鮮人遊廓) described in Atsushi Nakajima(中島敦)’s Puuru No Sobade(｢プウルの傍で｣,besides the pool). Puuru No Sobade describes, through the eye of a junior‐high‐school boy, Sanzo(三造), the reality of the Korean licensed quarter that could be only known by someone who had experienced a colony. In this sense, Puuru No Sobade could be read as a work that revealed the prostitution issues in colonies. However, Sanzo’s experience was described in a style of recalling narrative as one‐time ‘sexual adventure’ of a boy, in other words, an attempted whoredom, and we cannot regard it getting to the heart of the discriminations in a colony or exploitations of women’s sexuality by prostitutions.