Complex sentence: Yoshiya Chirū was a Ryuka (poetry) poet (1650? -1668?) who was born to a poor peasant in the Ryukyu Islands and she went to work at Yoshiya, which was an Akasen or red-light district house in the 17th century.
Split into simpler sentences: Yoshiya Chirū was a Ryuka poet (1650? -1668?) who was born to a poor peasant in the Ryukyu Islands. She worked in Yoshiya, an Akasen or red-light district house, in the 17th century.