What is a neo geisha?

Question

Norwegian band Zeromancer sing about a neo geisha... but what IS a neo geisha?

Answer 1

Neo-Geisha Organization was founded in Tokyo, in 1996, by HIYOKO, the anti-consumerist, pro-pleasure visionary ideologue who started life as Heather Peterson. Assembling the city’s foreign-born bar hostesses into a loose union bound by a tightly-crafted agenda, HIYOKO modelled the Organization on her favorite new-new religions, cyberpunk novels, animated movies, Third World governments, and esoteric Tantric philosophies. Authoring such diverse documents as Neo-Geisha Manifesto and All the Glamour Without the Hysterics, HIYOKO changed the relationship of Buddhism to the contemporary world. In April of 1997, she finally led her thousands of followers into a high-concept homicide/ suicide such as the Land of the Rising Sun had never seen.

Japan’s usually lethargic Parliament responded by pushing through numerous and severe legislations to insure that something like this could never happen again. With almost all first-generation Neo-Geisha members dead, thousands more Organization sympathizers fled to self-imposed exile all over the world, from Pyonyang to Tehran, Vladivostock to Ljubjana. Conjectures abounded as to the future of the thought system.

Waves of clandestine restructuring and ideological mutation happened during a seven-year period known as the Neo-Geisha Restoration.

Today, Neo-Geisha Organization exists as a semiological collective headquartered in New York City. Having abandoned any ties to violent struggle, the Organization limits its own activities to artistic production and analysis. Numbering once more in the thousands, new-new members include novelist Hillary Raphael, photographer Gilded Peony, design group Tokyo Mon Amour, as well as many more anonymous contributors.


hope this helps

Answer 2

A geisha is an artist. They are trained from age 14 as shikomi. They gradutate as maiko. The go through Misedashi, then san san kud where they are joined with an older sister (onesan). They then begin the Minarai phase, watching only. After a month they begin their maiko duties. They practice tea cerimonies, art of conversation, shamisen, and dancing. Then they have mizuage, where part of their hair is cut cerimonially. The later become geiko (fully fledged geisha) and are joined with a danna (patron, paying for most of the geiko's expenses). The geiko is free to marry and continue her art of entertainment. Her husband is usually expected to adopt her surname, but if she wishes to take on his surname instead, she will usually retire. For retired geiko who do not marry, they may start another business in the hanamachi (geisha district), perhaps an ochaya (teahouse), or resturaunt, or even another okiya (geisha house). Becoming a geisha is a wonderful opportunity for young women to experience and learn traditional japanese art and culture. I have just explained the modern way of geisha. The word neo means new; modern; revived, so the phrase neo geisha, means modern geisha.

Answer 3

Well Neo is way of saying new or 'of a new age or era' and the word Geisha comes from the Japanese word meaning Artist. A Geisha was NOT an escort. Geisha learnt from a young age the Arts of dance, shamisen, tea ceremony and the Art of Conversation-hence Artisan. So... Neo Geisha would simply mean.... Artisan of a New Age.

Answer 4

Actually, for information

and I only recently learned this, the Geisha did not have a lot to do with the physical act of sex, they were not "escorts" they were refined ladies with poetry arts and social skills.

You could get a pillow geisha, they were lower caste and therefore knowledgeable in the more carnal arts.

You should try the wikipedia - A quote
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Geisha," pronounced /ˈgeɪ ʃa/ ("gei-" rhymes with "may") is the most familiar term to English speakers. Like all Japanese nouns, there are no distinct singular or plural variants of the term. The word consists of two kanji, 芸 (gei) meaning "art" and 者 (sha) meaning "person" or "doer." The most direct translation of geisha into English would be "artist" or "arts person."

Another term used in Japan is 芸子 (geiko), a word from the Kyoto dialect. This generally refers to mid-ranked women who are still young and have not yet achieved full geisha status.

Apprentice geisha are called 舞子 or 舞妓 (both pronounced maiko). This word is made of the kanji 舞 (mai) meaning "dancing" and 子 or 妓 (ko) meaning "child" or "young girl." In actual practice, it is the maiko, with her white make-up and elaborate kimono and wigs, that has become the stereotype of a geisha to Westerners, rather than the more demure geisha.

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Answer 5

The prefix neo means New...a Geisha is a Japanese...I don't know, like an escort I guess, but different.

Answer 6

Characters from an animation that have been banned in Japan. They are young teenaged girls "dressed" in bras and knickers and they rule!

Answer 7

an artist?