During the meal, the geisha will chat with guests, pour drinks and light cigarettes.
An evening of geisha entertainment often begins with an exquisite meal of kaiseki (Japanese haute-cuisine).
Rather, geisha are highly skilled entertainers, who entertain guests at private parties and dinners.
To answer the most common question regarding geisha: they are most definitely not prostitutes.
In its heyday half a century ago, Kagurazaka was home to some 700 geisha-san.
Following dinner, the geisha may dance to music provided by a jikata, who plays the traditional, three-stringed shamisen.
At the end of the war, Miss Nakamura felt that the geisha profession, like Tokyo itself, had been destroyed.
ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90
She would entrance her audience with the same verve she had shown when she entertained her clients as a geisha.
ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90
She had something to sell, her experience as a geisha and of Japanese culture, and she worked hard to market it.
ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90
Geisha may also engage the guests in a variety of drinking games, at which they excel, almost always resulting in guests getting progressively sozzled.
The origins of today's geisha (geiko and maiko) can be traced back to the Edo Period (1600-1868), although they became most popular during the Taisho Period (1912-1926).
The dramaturgy is crudely repetitive: as Hatsumomo, Gong Li is required to throw so many hissy fits that she seems less a geisha than a Mean Girl.
The thriller, whose subtitle translates as The Beast in the Shadows, involves a novelist who comes to the aid of a geisha during a promotional visit to Tokyo.
The most beautiful of cities, with the paint still wet on the late Bellinis and Titians, Venice also had wonderful music, geisha-like courtesans, and a life of endless, mostly free conversation.
But then the teen-age Chiyo (Ziyi Zhang) is rescued by a good fairy, Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), a retired geisha who treats her kindly and teaches her the intricacies of her craft.
In many ways, geisha are living embodiments of Japanese traditional culture: each one is well versed in traditional dancing, singing, musical instruments and occasionally other arts such as tea ceremony and ikebana (flower arrangement).
This included entertainment by geisha, flights in police helicopters, sidetrips to Kyoto (250 km from Nagano) and shopping in Tokyo, where they and their friends were offered cam eras and compact-disc players.
In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.
Continue along Pontocho, past the theatre where geisha perform public dances in autumn and spring, and you will come out near the river again and Sanjo Bridge, where much of young Kyoto is hastening towards a night on the town, or waiting for dates near the temple commemorating 39 noblewomen and children executed along the riverbank.
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