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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 .
Both maiko and geisha wear the collar on their kimono relatively far back, accentuating (for maiko) the red collar of the underkimono (juban), and displaying (for both maiko and geisha) the two or three stripes of bare skin (eri-ashi and sanbon-ashi respectively) left just underneath the hairline when wearing oshiroi.
A senior maiko who lives in the maiko house where Kiyo works. She became a geiko in Chapter 294. Okā-san (おかあさん) Voiced by: Kaoru Katakai [5] The "mother" of the maiko house. She is responsible for all of the maiko and geisha's living arrangements and for their training and preparation. It is later revealed that her real name is ...
Geisha and maiko (teenage apprentices training to become geisha) are women who perform Japanese traditional arts such as singing, dancing and playing instruments to entertain customers while they ...
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 ...
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.
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.