Century-old Tokyo geisha festival revives dying art The geishas glide with measured steps across a wooden stage, offering a glimpse of a long-misunderstood tradition that is becoming a rare sight in ...

In Japan, Geisha dress-up and kimono-wearing experiences are another common bucket list activity. Studio Geisha Cafe in Tokyo offers full Geisha and samurai makeovers, which founder and second ...

Eitaro is Japan’s only male geisha who performs in the role as a female dancer. He is the master of an ‘okiya,’ a geisha house in Tokyo’s Omori ... male geisha who dress in men’s kimono ...

Trainee Japanese geishas wearing colorful kimonos and with full-face makeup were out on the streets of Tokyo on Friday, drumming up tourist custom for the ancient ... all from different geisha ...

These changing tastes sounded the death knell for the kagai of Tokyo and other major ... culture have managed to survive, and the geisha of those districts dress as they did in their heyday.

It's much redder than any western lipstick," said Sayuki. This young geisha will wear a wig. The kimono, the belt, known as the obi, and the ornaments add up. "One geisha fully dressed up can be ...

Tokyo (AFP) - Trainee Japanese geishas wearing colourful kimonos and with full-face makeup were out on the streets of a grey Tokyo on Friday, drumming up tourist custom for the ancient capital of ...

Here in the Gion geisha district of Japan’s ancient capital ... These days, peers often turn up their noses when passing Ishihara along the willow-lined streets and Zen bridges of Gion, where ...

The film adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha met with a mixed reaction at its world premiere in Tokyo Tuesday ... weeks to quickly pick-up skills that took ...