Whats is a Geisha??

Answer 1

Geisha are professional female entertainers who perform traditional Japanese arts at banquets.
Girls who wish to become a geisha, have to go through a rigid apprenticeship during which they learn various traditional arts such as playing instruments, singing, dancing, but also conversation and other social skills. In Kyoto, geisha apprentices are called "maiko".

Geisha are dressed in a kimono, and their faces are made up very pale. As a common tourist, you may be able to spot a maiko in some districts of Kyoto, such as Gion and Pontocho or in Kanazawa's Higashi Geisha District.

Answer 2

The word geisha literally means artist in Japanese. A geisha is somone who entertains groups for a fee. Her entertainment includes dancing, singing, telling jokes and just all around conversing. Some of the lower class geisha will sell their bodies but most of the higher class do not. She may take a boyfriend who pays for items for her.

Answer 3

a traditional female entertainer Geisha literally means "art-person," and the true geisha is above all an artist. She is an accomplished musician, being able to sing, dance, and play traditional instruments like the shamisen, but perhaps most excels in the fine art of making her client feel like a king.

Answer 4

Geisha (芸者, Geisha? geisha, literally art-person, or person of the arts) are traditional Japanese artist-entertainers. In the Kansai region the terms Geiko (芸妓, Geiko?) and, for apprentice geisha, Maiko (舞妓, Maiko?) have also been used since the Meiji Restoration. Geisha were very common in the 18th and 19th centuries; they still exist today, although their numbers are dwindling

Answer 5

Geisha are Japanese dancers. They are called "The Moving Art" litterally means "Artist" They entertain through their Dance of Elegance and Beauty. Their Beauty is that they are Mysterious.

Despite many myth, They're not Prostitutes, though they are often taken advantage of by undisciplined men.

Answer 6

A community of women in Japan that are trained from an early age in the graces and etiquettes of male pleasures and not just sex but from pouring tea to singing etc..

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha

Answer 8

its a bloke down the pub that you always see when you're drunk coz you say "ello geisha, how ya been mate?"

Answer 9

japanese enertainers also madams can be called geisha