【Geiko, November 25, 2018】 Geiko is Toshimana. Shooting location is Ryuhonji Temple. Photo by Hiroyuki Nunome. 【芸妓, 2018-11-25】 芸妓はとし真菜さんです。 撮影場所は立本寺。 Photo by Hiroyuki Nunome. ----------------- If you use this image, please attribute it with a link 55maiko.net. 写真の転載について：写真の転載・使用は歓迎いたしますが、その際に必ず 55maiko.net へリンクいただくようお願いします。
【Geiko,October 24, 2016】 Geiko is Toshimana. Shooting location is Nijyojinya. Photo by Tigertakashi. 【芸妓,2016年10月24日】 芸妓のとし真菜さんです。 撮影場所は、二条陣屋。 Photo by Tigertakashi. ----------------- If you use this image, please attribute it with a link kyoto.flowertourism.net/maiko/. 写真の転載について：写真の転載・使用は歓迎いたしますが、その際に必ず kyoto.flowertourism.net/maiko/ へリンクいただくようお願いします。
Her name is written in hiragana on the reverse. Embossed "Dentsu" in the lower right corner.
There are many people who don't know about the differences between Geisha, Geiko and Maiko ...
Taken Monday 11th March, 2011. Maiko-henshin around Kyomizu area. Canon 7D 70-200mm 2.8L @ f3.2 1/400 105mm ISO100 www.redbubble.com/people/tourjapan
Tomigiku in a dancing pose for the Miyako Odori (Cherry Dance) in Kyoto.
Japanese culture is unique in that the country has many things that other countries do not. One example of those is the geisha, female entertainers with meticulous training and sophisticated appearance. Many foreigners mistook them for traditional prostitutes, which is significantly inaccurate. Hence, to avoid misunderstanding, let’s talk about them and everything about them: Check […]
There are many people who don't know about the differences between Geisha, Geiko and Maiko ...
Geiko,Maiko-Kotohajime / GIon,Kyoto
Geisha are strongly connected with the traditional Japanese dance, yet some of them choose a slightly different career path. Being a maiko automatically means a commitment to the art of kyomai and making it a priority during the whole education process. However, after a ceremony of erikae artists are free to focus either on dancing […]
Teruha 照葉 (Shining leaf) (also Takaoka Chishou 高岡 智照) (1896-1994) geiko 芸子 with a little girl - Hand coloured photo by Shisui Naruse - 1910s
第六景 祇園小唄 (Scene #6:Gion-higashi kouta、Gion-higashi song) Geiko Tsuneyuu つね有 View On Black
This is one of my favourite photos of a Geiko (Geisha) sometime around the 1930s.
geiko of ponto-cho
The Geiko (geisha) Komitsu, Maiko (apprentice geisha) Tokiko and another maiko, boarding a boat around 1917.
[SAME CAPTION #1 - #5) Ca.1900-1915 photos of "Japan's Finest"....Prostitutes, that is. NOTE !!! The below caption, while historically accurate, contains sarcastic commentary about a certain aspect of Japan's glorified culture of prostitution. If sarcastic commentary about such a delicate subject is not your "thing", and offense is easily taken, I would advise you to avoid the below caption, and read a more SERIOUS commentary about the OIRAN and TAYUU here at this photo : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2701588987/in/set-7215... Called 'Courtesans" by those who don't like the word "Prostitute", Oiran is just another half-baked Japanese euphemism for "A Prostitute that Costs More than Other Prostitutes"...or in more eloquent terms, she is simply a "Damn Expensive Call Girl". "Call Girl" ? That's right. In fact, at certain times in Japan's illustrious history, she was put on public parade, as she walked from her bordello over to the the nearby "Hotel" where her wealthy "Patron" was waiting (after he had called her over via a perfunctory letter of invitation). And of course, Japan being Japan, she had her little parade of "future hopefuls" tag right along with her -- as seen in this picture, and many others that I've posted. Nowadays, they refer back to these little prostitutes-in-the making with the more politically correct "Ladies in Waiting", "Servant Girls", "Personal Assistants", "Pages", and what have you. In the Japanese language, these child "Prostitute Understudies" were called KAMURO, and were generally sold off to the brothels by their parents at the age of 5 or 6 to be RAISED AND TRAINED SPECIFICALLY TO BE PROSTITUTES. They actually got down to the business of doing what men expected them to do during what Westerners would call the "Middle School Years" --- MINUS THE "SCHOOL" PART OF IT. Well, they must have done a good Job, as Japanese "cultural pride" in this area has not abated, and there seems to be more prostitutes in Japan today then there ever were back then -- albeit the "official age" for engaging in prostitution is now 18. Please note that any and all "Anti-Prostitution Laws" of modern-day Japan are simply a facade to appease "Western Christian Nations" and United Nations members with whom Japan has political and economic ties. However, ADULT PROSTITUTION is not the focus of this caption. In the meantime, it's too bad they quit the Public Parade thing with all the little girls trailing behind (ahem) "MISS CONGENIALITY" like little ducklings. Oh, NO ! Who will the poor little girls of Japan turn to for a Role Model now ? But WAIT ! ALL IS NOT LOST ! Fortunately (?), some "re-creations" are still done in Kyoto and other hot-spots, where the die-hard "Cultural" types of local male citizenry try to hang onto those sweet memories of the good-old-days. You know......like when When FATHERS SOLD THEIR DAUGHTERS INTO PROSTITUTION ! These "LET'S PRESERVE OUR QUESTIONABLE CULTURE" nuts (some of them possibly connected to the Department of Education) occasionally get one of the local Bar Girls to put on a big wig full of shoe-horns and Lincoln-Logs (along with the appropriate foot-high clod-hoppers and three layers of bed-quilts), and strut her stuff for the picture-taking tourists....... as she carries the Banner of Erotic Love into the 21st Century. OH....did I just say NO MORE little girls join in with these ""Prostitute Culture Festivals" of today ??? OOOPS !!! Well, I can't always be right, you know ! See some colorful, MODERN-DAY "Get-'em-Hooked-While-They're-Young" photos right here on flickr -- just a few of many such photos to be found : www.flickr.com/photos/baaaal/2222306464/ and www.flickr.com/photos/tey-san/542722913/ and www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=Kamuro+Tayu&... FOR MORE OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS SEE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2333729757/ And even a 3-D OIRAN here !!! www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2474742195/ and other related flickr pics with a search of the word OIRAN. Here are some interesting links : gvnet.com/childprostitution/Japan.htm ......and GOD BLESS JAPAN. EXTRA BONUS LINK !!! For a modern-day, popular family festival that was once popular with prostitutes here in Japan, please go here and be enlightened : babibubebo.com/2008/04/07/kanamara-matsuri-festival-of-th...
Maiko (apprentice geisha) Yachiyo II of Osaka, dressed for the Ashibe Odori, the public dances of the Nanchi Gokagai (Southern five geisha districts), which were first performed in November 1888. The geiko (geisha) of Osaka are known for their "hera-hera odori" or dances that feature acrobatic stunts such as handstands.
@Baika-sai (japanese apricot festival) Kitano-tenmangu shrine, Kyoto.
Geiko (geisha) Kokin (小きん) of Osaka, dressed in winter clothing. The same image appears in the book "Kyoto Osaka imayō bijin fūzoku” (The 66 most attractive geisha of Kyoto and Osaka) by Kazumasa Ogawa, published by Hakubunkan, in Meiji 36 (1903).
Our editor Hanya Yanagihara traveled for nearly two months across Asia. Here are some of the most beautiful people and places she saw in 12 countries (in case you're curious: India, China, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Bali, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia, Burma, and Bhutan).
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