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A regional term for geisha with a slightly different meaning. Geiko refers to geisha in Western Japan, including Kyoto and Kanazawa. This term directly translates as ' woman of art ', and is part of the Kyoto dialect spoken by geisha in Kyoto and Western Japan. Geisha (芸者) lit. ' artist ' or ' performing artist ' or ' artisan '. A ...
Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
Typical markings include vertical lines from the lower lip that extend to beneath the chin. [2] According to tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak, the width of the lines and the spacing between them were traditionally associated with each of the nine groups of Hän Gwich’in. Girls would be tattooed to identify their group.
It’s all about “natural beauty,” and tattoos directly conflict with what Korean women are expected to look like. “[Tattoos] are normally related to gang members, yakuza, things like that ...
In the centre poses Tomimoto Toyohina, [a] a famed geisha of the Tamamuraya house in the Yoshiwara pleasure district. [16] She was dubbed "Tomimoto" having made her name playing Tomimoto-bushi music on the shamisen. [14] Like the other two models, she has her hair up in the fashionable Shimada style that was popular at the time.
An apprentice geisha on the day of her misedashi, the occasion when a shikomi becomes an apprentice proper. Notice two dangling kanzashi on the sides of her hairstyle.. A maiko (舞妓, IPA: / ˈ m aɪ k oʊ / MY-koh, Japanese:) is an apprentice geisha in Kyoto. [1]
Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha, the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the ideal of Japanese women in movies, animations and TV series. In the West, the onna-musha gained popularity when the historical documentary Samurai Warrior Queens aired on the Smithsonian Channel .
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture.For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society.