Has anyone got any brilliant information on Japenese Geisha?

Question

I am very interested in Geisha and I would love some more information about them

Answer 1

alright, i am the culture obsessed freak of the world. i have been to japan twice, and know more about geisha than just about anyone you will meet. memoirs of a geisha is FICTION. the author interviewed Mineko Iwasaki eight times, and she asked him not to publish her name in the book, and he put her name in the book, and she has a lawsuit against him, so as it is a good story, it is fiction, and a LOT of things in there are not true. I finaly got my hands on a very informative and TRUE book. it was written by Mineko Iwasaki herself and clears up the total *ahem published in Memoirs of a geisha. You read that, and you will have a solid foundation of what geisha really are. I will tell you right now, THEY ARE NOT PROSTITUTES. I get absoulutly livid when people think that. so read Geisha, a life by mineko Iwasaki.

Answer 2

Here is some information I found on a website, besides the above answer--which is to read Memoirs of a Geisha ( you probably already have). I find this piece of history intensely fascinating as well.


The word Geisha means "artist" in Japanese. Geisha are professional hostesses who entertain guests through various performing arts in tea houses called O-chaya. They are trained in a number of traditional skills such as Japanese ancient dance, singing, playing instruments such as the Shamisen, flower arrangement, wearing kimo no, tea ceremony, calligraphy, conversation, alcohol serving manners and more. Geisha continue to study and perfect these skills throughout their careers as geisha.




A successful geisha must demonstrate beauty, grace, artistic talent, charm, impeccable etiquette, and refinement. Only guests with a long time connection with the tea house are allowed and tea houses generally don't take on new clients without an introduction. The profession of a geisha is a very expensive business and a geisha party can easily cost thousands of US dollars. The total number of geisha in the 1920's was 80,000, but today the number of geisha has dropped to 10,000 due to the westernizing of Japanese culture. \
The website below and above contain very beautiful pictures, as well..Hope this helps.





http://marian.creighton.edu/~marian-w/academics/english/japan/geisha/geisha.html

Answer 3

I loved the book Memoires of a Geisha....until I actually moved to Japan. I have been living here for three years now and have been lucky enough to see these gracefully geisha on occasion. However, if you want a true representation of geisha, please read some books actually written by them...."Geisha of Gion - by Mineko Iwasaki" is great and she even refers to the gross misinformation given in other books written by foreigners. She is first Japanese geisha to publish a book shedding light on this mysterious role.

Answer 4

Watch teh Movie Memoirs of a Geisha or go on the internet.

Answer 5

Memoirs of a Gesha is about the poorest book you could read on them. It is not at all authentic and is completely fictional. There are great websites on them. Just Google Geisha.

Answer 6

Read the novel Memoirs of a Geisha, great insight in there! Don't cheat and see the movie! :P

Answer 7

Japanese Geisha truely is a hostess.It has now lost its meaning and more or less is like woman sex worker

Answer 8

Yes, stick to ballet or flamenco...bloody brill!!