How To Use Geisha In A Sentence
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They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption.
A Reader's Manifesto
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Say the word geisha and images of beautiful kimono-clad women serving green tea, reciting poetry and playing classical instruments may spring to mind.
News On Japan
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And herein lies the paradox, and possibly the geishas' demise.
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The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The singer/actress has traveled the world as part of the show, in which she discovers the local beauty regimes and culture in different countries, including those of African tribeswomen and Japanese Geishas.
Jessica Simpson Unairbrushed Without Makeup On Cover Of Marie Claire
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The sun was shining, the geishas were dancing and the crowds were maddening.
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The geisha was the youngest and prettiest of the bunch.
Botchan (Master Darling)
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In those days a geisha could take lovers but her crucial aim was to secure a ‘danna’ or patron - a sugar daddy - who could keep her in her exclusive lifestyle of private cars, expensive coiffures and kimonos for every occasion.
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The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This happens with many races, like Al Pacino playing a Cuban in Scarface, or all the Chinese actors playing Japanese in Memoirs of a Geisha.
Final Poster for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time | /Film
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The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession
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If the legions of Japanese women bucking tradition might be referred to as kickboxing geishas, what can we say about the men?
Kickboxing Geishas
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Her book is a mesh of biography and a wider history of the geisha.
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A number of the women had time to develop their minds in between flaunting their bodies, more like geisha girls, or the hetaerae of ancient Greece, than modern-day porn stars.
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Oriental prints were used on dresses reinforcing the Geisha girl theme while lurex and sequin dresses offered glamour for the evening.
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Of course, a geisha never really "sits" while wearing kimono; what we call sitting is probably what other people would call kneeling.
Memoirs of a Geisha
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Kokin was born in 1909, then served as an apprentice geisha in Kofu after graduating from elementary school.
Japan’s Oldest Geisha Marks Her 99th Birthday | Impact Lab
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te 28 The moon is slung low over Rosslyn Hill, a white geisha-face beyond the skiddy clouds.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Although Lonnie claimed to admire her so-called feistiness when it was directed at a sloppy repairman or a short-changing pizza delivery person, he wanted her to be as meek as a geisha girl when dealing with him.
A Dollar Short
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And as I have been busy lately, being wacky happy, I have been remiss is giving a shout out to the newest soldier in the War On Dogma ... gotta say hey to my newest reader, the lover cyber-geisha herself, sayaka.
Sunday, Busy Sunday
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Emerging from a door behind a screen was a geisha; in her arms was a shamisen.
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It's exactly the same attitude, despite all the fascination heaped on them, that people had towards the geisha in Japan.
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Many Chinese are distrustful of her success in the West and suspicious that she is playing a Japanese geisha in a big Hollywood film.
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And herein lies the paradox, and possibly the geishas ' demise.
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Experience traditional Japanese culture in this city and in its Gion district, where the exquisite geishas are trained.
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Then she set out in short, mincing steps like a geisha with a full pot of tea.
Villa Incognito
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There had been few artistic entertainments of any sort-the only music, besides her inconsequential samisen demonstration, had been the guests' drunken singing to a geisha's sake-affected strumming.
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I mean, you're not sold to a geisha house any more.
Times, Sunday Times
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For centuries Japanese geishas have used processed bird droppings to lighten and smooth their skin.
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To my mind, a first-class geisha is more analogous to a kept mistress in our culture than to a prostitute.
Arthur Golden - An interview with author
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Men take off their jackets behind a folding screen set up as a partition and step into the room to the accompaniment of a rhythm of '' shamisen '' three-stringed musical instrument played by geisha.
Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
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These are the communities where the professionally trained female artists known as geisha live and work.
Geisha, A Life
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The geisha, with her face whitened with powder, and her lips painted a bright red, and her elaborately-dressed hair full of ornaments, sits down to a sort of guitar called a samisen and sings, but her song has no music in it.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
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Of all the operas that end in personal tragedy, none is more heartbreaking than the story of a Japanese geisha who renounces her native culture for the love of a feckless American sailor.
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He seems to be a huge fan of geishas, as they seem to turn up in some form or another in the majority of his videos.
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I was so impressed - a novel written in English about the Geisha world.
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‘I wanted to link the romance of old-style perfumery with the mystery and glamour of geisha culture,’ she says.
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Behind her followed the geisha Chikafuku, her face unpainted, wearing an elegant, ankle-length kimono of subdued greys and browns.
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Oriental prints were used on dresses reinforcing the Geisha girl theme while lurex and sequin dresses offered glamour for the evening.
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But as Sayuri says in the novel, you have to look at how well they play the shamisen, and how much they know about tea ceremony, before you determine whether they ought properly to call themselves geisha.
Arthur Golden - An interview with author
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Geishas broke apart from courtesans / prostitutes sometime around the 1500s- 1600s, so the two are somewhat similar.
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The friendly owner tells us about the wooden combmakers of Narai, who once fashioned intricate little combs for the geishas of Kyoto.
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Thus from the beginning there was always a firm distinction - in theory, at least - between the courtesans, who had a monopoly on sex, and the geisha, whose job was to entertain.
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Karl Lagerfeld, whose muse for Chanel Couture must be equal parts geisha, schoolgirl and American housewife circa late '50s/early' 60s, placed sugary sweet bows in each girls 'bouffant' do.
Luxist
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They are traditional tea ceremonies, graceful geishas, and sakura branches
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Zaib Qayyum of River Oaks School correctly spelled the word geisha after only 10 rounds of competition Friday to secure the win at the All-Parish Spelling Bee sponsored by The News-Star.
Thenewsstar.com - Local News
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Even if I end up walking around like a geisha girl I will live to tell the tale that they are the most comfortable sandals ever.
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Since then, green, unroasted Geisha grown in Panama has been selling at astronomical prices ranging from $25-170/pound.
David Pohl: "The End of Coffee As We Know It"
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Well, not to be outdone, Tokyo has what you might call guardian geishas.
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There's a hint of gipsy in the long, layered skirt; of the geisha in the wrap-over kimono tops with trailing butterfly sleeves and of the beach babe in the long, floaty kaftan.
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The 11-year-old had tried out her hand in drawing two Japanese geishas.
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The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Geisha parties are considerably more exclusive and expensive than the grandest British gentlemen's clubs.
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The job of waiting up to bow and welcome the geisha home almost always fell to the most junior of the "cocoons" — as the young geisha-in-training were often called.
Memoirs of a Geisha
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Students in the class can learn from real geisha how to put on kimono and make-up as well as how to dance on '' tatami '' mats at the Japanese-style inn Tokaikan during a single-day course for 12,800 yen or a two-day course for 18,800 yen.
Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
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There she lives under the watchful eye of the proprietress, the geisha house ‘mother’, even stricter than her own mother.
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To better understand the role geishas occupy in Japanese society, she became one, the only non-Japanese woman to do so.
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Over the tagged panels, using his own paper stencils that are unique to each painting, Fujita creates intricate compositions, which feature samurais, geishas, dragons, tigers and fish, using spraypaint, paint marker and Mean Streak, in striking colors.
Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011)
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Nobody in Japan would dream of confusing top Gion geisha with high - class courtesans, let alone prostitutes, the myth that continues to prevail about geisha in the West.
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The point is not that he was, but that the geisha can make the dullest, most unattractive, paunchy, middle-aged office worker feel that he is the sexiest man alive.
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In their heyday, before the Second World War, there were more than 80,000 geisha in Japan.
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In his letter to Chiyo, Mr. Tanaka says The training of a geisha is an arduous path.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden: Questions
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Surely, it was an inconvenient oddity - the thin silk kimonos favored by geisha were more decorative than protective against the elements.
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In idyllic seclusion he is watched over by preening geishas and the resort's manager, Mr Komatsu, as he samples many dishes, including the vilest of all abominations - the Mountain Potato.
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It tells the story of a girl's life as a geisha that is full of struggle but with a happy ending.
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And that other strange portrait of her dressed up as a Japanese geisha.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wizened grandma in the corner strikes up a geisha love song on her samisen.
Ukiyo
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The word geisha means “arts person” and the geisha is trained in the art of intriguing men with her most effective tool—her mind.
Kickboxing Geishas
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And those figurative ukiyo-e prints literally "of the floating world" of geisha, courtesans, prostitutes, and queer samaurai and kabuki actors beloved by the impressionists and their ilk as often as not chronicled the last gasp of indigenous pan-sexuality that moralistic Western states demanded the Japanese purge themselves of in order to benefit from their much-needed trade.
G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture
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What a crowd, from geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha) to grandmas and and grandpas, tourists and romantic couples, the young women dressed in kimono finery.
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The country conjured by this show could not be further from yesterday's Western stereotype of Japan as a land of languid Zen gardens, impeccably trained geishas and flower arranging elevated to the status of high art.
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i want to be a china doll. when i had dark hair, i was often referred to as a geisha (once). the right side of my body will be outfitted in an evening dress and the left side of my body will be covered in a gingham print.
China doll
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The most stereotyped image of Japanese women is, of course, that of the geisha, and the most common misperception is that a geisha is a prostitute.
Kickboxing Geishas
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Meanwhile in Japan, a geisha is made pregnant by an abusive Englishman, who abandons her.
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Gradually courtesans became passé and geisha rose in status to become glittering and fashionable society women.
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The Japanese geisha waits for her American navy husband's return.
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Then someone told her he'd seen the play and had a flashing vision of a Japanese geisha in a similar garden setting.
