Westerners think they know all about geishas, those delicate Japanese women with their virgin milky white faces accented by a jarring pop of red lipstick, their feet sitting in clacking wooden sandals ...

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It started as a joke over too much sake. It was 1975, in Kyoto, Japan. The American Fulbright student was dining with a motherly ex-geisha who had befriended her and with some of the other geisha, and ...

Few countries today are so bound in tradition as Japan. Occupied since at least the Stone Age, Japan's long isolation as an island nation spawned a unique and fascinating culture. The tea ceremony, ...

The posters of geishas -- everywhere -- were driving Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani bonkers. "When I first saw those images throughout the city, it annoyed me," says the Bay Area native of the omnipresent ...

Local officials in Japan’s popular Geisha district in Kyoto will shut off access to “paparazzi” tourists who harass and trouble the globally recognised Japanese women artists, starting April this year ...

“Memoirs of a Geisha” is an enchanting, yet somewhat disturbing, story of a 9-year-old girl, Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), who develops into a highly desirable geisha.The story begins with stormy emotion, as ...

An ultra-modern online crowdfunding campaign has come to the rescue of one of the most traditional and uniquely Japanese businesses in the north coast city of Niigata – its geisha community. Japan’s ...