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Karuizawa Geisha Series: Japan's Most Coveted Whisky Unveiled - MSNAmongst these releases, the Karuizawa Geisha Label bottlings featured label designs based upon traditional Japanese Uliyo-e, woodblock prints which most often depicted courtesans or geisha.
An extract from this week's must-read book... Memoirs of a Geisha I had seen the Chairman during only one brief moment in my life; but I'd spent a great many moments since then imagining him.
Some prostitutes did adopt the traditional geisha look — a brightly painted alabaster face with dark eyebrows and red lipstick — to attract their clients.
Geishas have played board games with clients and, during the post-war boom, golf. Geisha entertainment was always closer to today’s hostess bars, or kyabakura, than the purists admit.
View Toyokuni II (1786-1865) Early Japanese Woodblock Print Of A Geisha With A Fan, Circa 1840 (Circa 1840) By Kunisada Utagawa; Woodblock Print; approx. 19 X 15, approx. 13 1/2 X 9 1/2; . Access more ...
We’ve talked before about geisha as one of Japan’s distinctly female professions, so this time we’re going to share with you a few fun facts about the geisha and their floating world. How many of ...
KYOTO--A geisha community here will put on its annual “Gion Odori” dance performance in November for the first time in three years.
KYOTO--Geisha and "maiko" apprentice geisha from four major "kagai" traditional entertainment districts here will showcase their annual spring dance performances for the first time in four years ...
View Four oban shunga prints from the album Ehon tsui no hinagata Patterns of Loving Couples, depicting love-making scenes with four different couples including a geisha and her client 4 works by ...
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