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Geisha (芸者) (/ˈɡeɪʃə/; Japanese: [ɡeːɕa]), also known as geiko (芸子) (in Kyoto and Kanazawa) or geigi (芸妓), are female Japanese performing artists and...

Memoirs of a Geisha, released in Japan as Sayuri, is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from...

story of Nitta Sayuri and the many trials she faces on the path to becoming and working as a geisha in Kyoto, Japan, before, during and after World War II...

fashionable women at the historic height of their profession, this reputation was later usurped in the late 18th through 19th centuries by geisha, who became...

of the Japanese Doll. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0804847353. Downer, Leslie, Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Broadway...

2023) was an Australian anthropologist working as a geisha in Japan. She made her debut as a geisha (trainee) in 2007 in the Asakusa district of Tokyo...

blamed for the low Japanese birth rate and declining growth of the Japanese population. Arguably mass-produced pornography in Japan may have begun as early...

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million...

onsen, Geisha, and games. Japan has a developed system for the protection and promotion of both tangible and intangible Cultural Properties and National...

1800s, geisha in the hanamachi of Fukagawa, Tokyo began to wear haori over their kimono. Haori had until that point only been worn by men; the geisha of Fukagawa...

政子), 2 November 1949) is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geisha. Iwasaki was the most famous geisha in Japan until her sudden retirement...

Hairstyles of Japanese women have been varied throughout history. Since the 7th century, Japanese noblewomen have sought out elaborate and structured ways...

districts, would eventually originate geisha, who would become known as the fashionable companions of the chōnin classes and simultaneously cause the demise...

IPA: /ˈmaɪkoʊ/ MY-koh, Japanese: [maiko]) is an apprentice geisha in Kyoto. Their jobs consist of performing songs, dances, and playing the shamisen or...

practitioners of Japanese traditional dance wear similar kimono and accessories to geisha and maiko. For certain traditional holidays and occasions, some...

Taikomochi (太鼓持), also known as hōkan (幇間), were the original male geisha of Japan. The Japanese version of the jester, taikomochi were once attendants to daimyō...

elites was soon diluted and came to be considered acceptable among commoner women, especially among married women and geisha, it was a forbidden practice...

undergone by apprentice oiran (kamuro) and some maiko (apprentice geisha) as part of their coming of age ceremony and graduation. For kamuro, who had often...

a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizō Ishida (石田 吉蔵), via strangulation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his penis and testicles...

lit. 'Japanese hair') is the term used for a number of traditional Japanese hairstyles considered to be distinctive in their construction and societal...