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• Many Westerners who think that they are associated with the term “geisha” associate it with a large-haired prostitute, wearing an elaborate kimono and heavy makeup.   On the contrary, the history of geisha has an extensive and honorable history. ...   During the Edo period, however, geisha came to indicate a professional who performed only at a licensed establishment. ...   In modern Japan, a woman who desires to become geisha must still take lessons for many traditional arts. ...   The fascinating, engaging appearance of a geisha reflects the customary beauty of traditional Japanese women. ...

• 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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• Geisha come out of the "floating world" the era of the pleasure quarters, giving rise to today's "flower and willow world" the world of the Geisha. ...
• The Odoroki or dancing girls were very popular in these areas for entertainment, though as some of the girls grew older it became innappropriate to take this name and so called themselves Geisha after the male Geisha of the pleasure quarters who would entertain men at their banquets before they would retire for the night with the courtesans. These male Geisha, or Taikomochi, may have been the first but they were soon superseded by the popularity of the female Geisha. ...
• The laws governing Geisha controlled both the services they were allowed to offer and also the way they dressed, in this way it would hope that they would not serve as a threat to the courtesans being neither able to engage in prostitution nor wear the highly decorative clothing of the Tayu. This gives rise to the simplistic kimono and relatively simple hairstyles of the Geisha: the point is understated elegance rather than extravagance.
• Licensed Geisha districts grew first in Gion and then spreading to other Hanamachi throughout Japan. ...
• From then on the Geisha were to be the epitomy of high fashion, usually the forerunners of new trends and "Iki" habits. In turn they too became ritualised and as the Geisha dwindle in number they have become as unreachable to the average man as the Tayu were in the pleasure quarter era. As Western culture has taken hold of Japan the Geisha are no longer the denizens of high fashion but the holders of a traditional culture. ...
• One of the other major changes to the lives of the Geisha came about after World War II. The new laws governing prostitution and entertaining girls meant that girls could no longer be sold into the Geisha life by their families, nor could a Maiko's virginity be bought and sold any longer, removing the long standing Mizuage rite of passage.
• Today the Geisha life is a very different one, girls become Geisha by their own free will, and often only stay long enough to get married, much as any other profession in Japan. The Geisha population is slowly dying out and many of the Hanamachi have disappeared in recent times. There are talks of regulating the Geisha world, however whether this will ever occur is uncertain. The stigma of advertising for girls to join the profession has meant that the numbers do not grow, and there is a social understanding that while it may be very elegant to visit a Geisha it is not likely that one would wish their own daughter to become one. Perhaps the Geisha will become another packaged tourist attraction but more likely, as the Tayu became the Geisha, the Geisha will evolve into something more fitting to contemporary Japan. ...

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• Taikomochi or Houkan, the Male Counterpart to the Geisha.
• Taikomochi or Houkan, the Male Counterpart to the Geisha. ...
• The taikomochi, or the houkan, were the original male geisha of Japan. ...
• Geisha means "arts person", while houkan was the formal name for "jester". ... In 1751 the first onna geisha (female geisha) arrived at a party and caused quite a stir. She was called geiko ("arts girl"), which is still the term for geisha in Kyoto today. By the end of the 1700s these onna geisha outnumbered the male geisha - the taikomochi - and the men became so few that they started by otoko geisha ("male geisha"). The geisha even took over from the yujo due to their artistic skills, their contemporary outlook and their sophistication. The men continued to assisted the women - this time the geisha - in the entertainment field. ...
• In Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, Lesley Downer wrote that in Yoshiwara in 1770, there were 16 female geisha and 31 male geisha. In 1775 there were 33 female geisha, but still 31 male geisha. But in 1800 there were 143 female geisha and 45 male geisha. ...
• Since then the geisha started to decline as the popularity of the jokyu (cafe girls) in the 1920s due to westernisation. ... Although there are still small communities of geisha in Kyoto and Tokyo, there are only five taikomochi in Japan. ... Unfortunately few young women are interested in becoming geisha, and even fewer young men are interested in becoming taikomochi. ...
• In Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, Lesley Downer interviewed Taikomochi Shichiko, a taikomochi from Tokyo. ... These parties, like with geisha, can be very expensive. ...

• Revuelo han causado en Frutillar, las revelaciones de las relaciones entre Marcelo Arismendi y la Geisha Anita Alvarado.
• En el diálogo posterior a ello, que tuvo la Geisha con el grupo de representantes de los medios de comunicación, Anita Alvarado le dirigió numerosos piropos directos y con mucha insistencia al frutillarino. ... del día domingo 27 salió el gran revuelo del nuevo pololo sureño que tendría la Geisha Alvarado.
•     Frutillar sería el próximo destino de la Geisha y el rating de TV del domingo aficha 100% a favor de Marcelo Arismendi.

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• Geisha are professional hostesses who entertain guests through various performing arts. Geisha girls and women are not ordinary hostesses and are not prostitutes. It's believed that the women who danced for warriers in the 11th century are the predecessors of geisha. Geisha girls and women are trained in a number of traditional skills; Japanese ancient dance, singing, playing instruments (a three stringed instrument called shamisen is an essential instrument), flower arrangement, wearing kimono, tea ceremony, calligraphy, conversation, alcohol serving manners, and more. Geisha girls and women are talented Japanese women who patiently go through extensive training. Even after becoming a geisha girl, they keep improving their skills by taking many lessons. Nowadays, there are geisha girls and women who learn English conversation to serve English-speaking customers and learn computer skills. The work of geisha is expanding these days, including modeling or international tours, for example.

• Pay to Replace Patrons for Aging Geisha Thu Mar 17, 2005 09:33 AM ET Printer Friendly | Email Article | Reprints | RSS  .
• TOKYO (Reuters) - Aging geisha in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto may soon have a new reason to sing and dance. ...
• Worried about the increasing hardship faced by the kimono-clad professional entertainers, a geisha support group is planning a system of financial aid as the traditional method of support -- paying patrons -- dwindles. ...
• "Many geisha are getting on a bit but they still have to study and buy kimonos," said Osamu Ito, deputy head of the Kyoto Traditional Musical Art Promotion Foundation. ...
• Practitioners of Japan's centuries-old art, which is soon to be the subject of a Hollywood movie, Geisha traditionally make their living by securing a patron who pays for their lessons, clothing and other expenses. ...
• At the same time, the years of tough training to learn traditional dances, musical instruments and etiquette and the rigid hierarchy of the geisha system puts off young people, resulting in a decline in new recruits. ...
• Of the 190 geisha still active in Kyoto, 39 are over the age of 65. ...

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