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Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House [b] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aiko Koyama [].It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 2016 to January 2025, with its chapters collected in 28 tankōbon volumes as of December 2024.
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (舞妓さんちのまかないさん) is a Japanese television series about contemporary life in a geisha house in Kyoto, Japan. The series stars Nana Mori , Natsuki Deguchi , and Aju Makita , released by Netflix on January 12, 2023. [ 1 ]
Geisha wear kimono more subdued in pattern and colour than both regular women's kimono, and the kimono worn by apprentice geisha. Geisha always wear short-sleeved kimono, even if they are technically still young enough to wear furisode , as the wearing of furisode -style sleeves is considered a marker of apprenticeship.
A maiko (舞妓, IPA: / ˈ m aɪ k oʊ / MY-koh, Japanese:) is an apprentice geisha in Kyoto. [1] Their jobs consist of performing songs, dances, and playing the shamisen or other traditional Japanese instruments for visitors during banquets and parties, known as ozashiki .
A kuromontsuki hikizuri (a trailing black kimono with five crests) is a formal black trailing kimono decorated with five crests of the maiko 's okiya, placed on the centre back, the back of the sleeves, and the front shoulders. Hikizuri are usually 200 centimetres (79 in) in length, with a padded hem to aid the skirt in trailing across the floor.
Members of the Imperial family on formal occasions, geisha, maiko, and sumo wrestlers wear variations on common traditional accessories that are not found in everyday dress, such as certain types of kimono. As an extension of this, many practitioners of Japanese traditional dance wear similar kimono and accessories to geisha and maiko.
In the present day, a maiko 's graduation is known as erikae (襟替え, 'turning the collar [of a kimono]'), and is entirely non-sexual, though some older sources – such as the autobiography of Mineko Iwasaki, the geisha that inspired the character Sayuri in the novel Memoirs of a Geisha by author Arthur Golden refer to the non-sexual ...
For geisha and maiko, application of oshiroi varies depending on age, status and region. Since the application of oshiroi can prove challenging, a younger maiko may have her okā-san ("mother" – typically the mother of the geisha house ) or her "older sister" geisha mentor apply it for her at first.