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• Geisha - Japanese Woman Who Entertains Men.
• A geisha is a Japanese woman who entertains men as her profession. ...
• The word geisha literally means 'arts person' or artisan. ...
• The role of Geisha first developed from that of men known as Taikomochi or Houkan, the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. ...
• Geisha were traditionally trained from childhood. Geisha were common in the 18th and 19th centuries, and are still in existence today, although fewer in number. ... First they worked as maids, and once a woman became an apprentice geisha (maiko) she would begin to learn how to dance, sing, play the shamisen (a stringed instrument similar to the banjo), and in general practice the art of being a geisha. ...
• Geisha were not prostitutes. ...
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• Modern geisha are no longer sold into slavery, but geisha training remains long and difficult. ...

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• Memoirs of a Geisha.
• The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's experience of reading Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. We hope that they will give you a number of interesting ideas and angles from which to approach this enthralling debut novel, which is the fictional true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. ...
• The strikingly pretty child of an impoverished fishing family, Chiyo is taken to faraway Kyoto and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house where she is renamed Sayuri. Initially reluctant, Sayuri must finally invent and cultivate an image of herself as a desirable geisha in order to survive in Gion's cruel hierarchy. Through her eyes, we are given a backstage view of the ancient and secretive geisha district, Gion, and of the lives of the women who learn and practice the rigorous arts of the geisha. ... Memoirs of a Geisha is a treasure of a book, an unparalleled look at a strange and mysterious world which has now almost vanished. ...
• Many people in the West think of geisha simply as prostitutes. After reading Memoirs of a Geisha, do you see the geisha of Gion as prostitutes? What are the similarities, and what are the differences? What is the difference between being a prostitute and being a "kept woman," as Sayuri puts it p. ...
• Tanaka says "The training of a geisha is an arduous path. ... The word "geisha" in fact derives from the Japanese word for art. In what does the geisha's art consist? How many different types of art does she practice? .
• Does Sayuri have a better life as a geisha than one assumes she would have had in her village? How does one define a "better" life? Pumpkin, when offered the opportunity to run away, declines p. ...
• How do Japanese ideas about eroticism and sexuality differ from Western ones? Does the Japanese ideal of femininity differ from ours? Which parts of the female body are fetishized in Japan, which in the West? The geisha's ritual of preparing herself for the teahouse is a very elaborate affair; how essentially does it differ from a Western women's preparation for a date? .
• Does the way in which the Kyoto men view geisha differ from the way they might view other women, women whom they might marry? What are the differences? How, in turn, do geisha view men? Is the geisha's view of men significantly different from that of ordinary women? .
• Do you find that the relationship between a geisha and her danna is very different from that between a Western man and his mistress? What has led Sayuri to think that "a geisha who expects understanding from her danna is like a mouse expecting sympathy from a snake" p. ...

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• Arthur Golden's 1998 novel Memoirs of a Geisha revived interest in an aspect of Japan that is so intrinsic to the Western stereotype and yet so far removed from the reality of daily life here. Geisha do still exist and ply their trade, of course. ... In fact, most of the women captured on film are either maiko (apprentice geisha) or tourists themselves, done up for a few hours of faux sophistication and attention seeking. ...
• But like their male counterpart the samurai, the geisha and her world continue to fascinate people around the world as part of their image of a mysterious and timeless Japan. Prostitution is of course referred to as the "oldest profession," and the history of the geisha stretches back several centuries. But while many people assume that geisha is just a Japanese word for a prostitute, the somewhat more romantic word 'courtesan' is probably closer in nuance, though even that is misleading when you consider their history. The word geisha itself literally means 'person of the arts' - indeed the earliest geisha were men - and it is as performers of dance, music and poetry that they actually spend most of their working time. ...
• The two most famous hanamichi (geisha quarters) can be found in the capital cities of today and yesteryear, Tokyo and Kyoto. ... Actors, sumo wrestlers and geisha were often the subjects of colorful ukiyo-e, woodblock prints whose name literally means 'pictures of the floating world,' a wonderful euphemism for the world of carnal desires. ...
• History of geisha.
• Geisha have their roots in female entertainers such as the Saburuko of the 7th century and the Shirabyoshi, who emerged around the early 13th century. ...
• Female geisha soon became popular enough to be able to steal clients from the courtesans, and in the case of Yoshiwara it was decided to start a kenban, or registration system, to keep them under control and force them to pay taxes. ...
• These strict rules in fact allowed the geisha to flourish as artists and entertainers. ... Young girls were sold into the geisha life by their families until the mid-20th century and were often subject to the ritual of 'mizu-age,' whereby their virginity was sold to the highest bidder. Such practices were eradicated after World War II and the geisha profession went into a steady decline. Today, if geisha are hired to entertain at a private party outside the upper eschelons of society, they are most likely to be seasoned veterans, more akin to your favorite aunt or even grandmother than the girl next door.

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• Geisha were known for extremely elaborate hair styles, with hair ornaments and pins. ... If you can create any sort of up-do, you'll be close to a Geisha hair style in one century or another. ...
• The Geisha did their entire face in stark white, to emphasize that this was a role they were playing. ... The idea is to tantalize the viewer with the thought that under all of that makeup (and clothes) the geisha was indeed bare skin. ...

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• Japanese on edge over Spielberg's geisha film .
• This is the modern-day world of Japan's beguiling female entertainer: the geisha. ...
• Which is why Kyoto's geisha districts are distinctly nervous about a forthcoming Hollywood film, produced by Steven Spielberg, which will dramatise Arthur Golden's best selling 1997 novel Memoirs of a Geisha. ...
• The story tells of a young woman's rise to the top of the geisha world in pre-war Japan. ...
• Golden insisted that Sayuri, a poor girl sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district, was a composite of several women he had interviewed and was entirely fictional. ...
• Peter MacIntosh, an expert on geisha who has been advising the film's director, Rob Marshall, admitted there was widespread anxiety within the profession about the impact of the film. ...
• Most of Gion's geisha establishments have refused the cameras access and the bulk of the movie will feature an unidentified teahouse district meticulously re-created in the foothills north of Los Angeles. ...
• The geisha's traditional white make-up, for example, has been deemed too scary for American audiences. ...
• The 250 geisha and maiko apprentices who live and work in Kyoto's five geisha districts regard themselves, above all else, as performers. ...
• "I haven't given finding a patron a moment's thought," says the 20-year-old, a maiko apprentice at the Kaden teahouse, who will become a fully fledged geisha next year. ...
• Ikuko Takeda, a former geisha who runs the Kaden teahouse in Miyagawa-cho, acknowledged the popular appeal of the women she nurtures from their teens into their mid 20s. ...
• But she was irritated that geisha codes were being broken in the rush to capitalise on the success of Golden's novel and in anticipation of the film. ...
• She is also irritated by several geisha exposés in recent years. ...

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