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  2. Geisha - Wikipedia

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    Geisha are skilled artists, trained in and performing music and dance. Geisha Komomo and Mameyoshi from Gion Kobu playing shamisen. Geisha entertain their guests with a combination of both their hostessing and conversational skills, and their skills in traditional Japanese art forms of dance, music and singing.

  3. Three Beauties of the Present Day - Wikipedia

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    Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts. Alongside paintings, mass-produced woodblock prints were a major form of the genre. [1]

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Geisha Kyoto Gion.jpg

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    Beyond the manufactured imagery of Hollywood, this is a rare glimpse of what a real geisha looks like when she is working in the evening -- when the simple act of lighting a cigar becomes art. For the sake of authenticity and out of respect for the original tradition, I nominate this photograph of a lovely geisha -- a true geisha -- at work in ...

  5. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.

  6. Mizuage - Wikipedia

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    Mineko Iwasaki, former high-ranking Gion geisha, detailed her experience of mizuage in her autobiography, Geisha, a Life.Describing her experience of graduation to geishahood with the term mizuage, Iwasaki described her experience as a round of formal visits to announce her graduation, including the presentation of gifts to related geisha houses and important patrons, and a cycle through five ...

  7. Chishō Takaoka - Wikipedia

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    Chishō Takaoka (高岡 智照 April 22, 1896 – October 22, 1994) [1] was a geisha in Shinbashi who became a Buddhist nun later in life. Her stage name was Chiyoha (千代葉) or Teruha (照葉), [2] while her real name was Tatsuko Takaoka (高岡たつ子).

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