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1st time I watch this film was more than 20 years ago. When I was attending US university. I took a course titled "History of Japanese and Chinese women." During the 4 month-long semester, the attending students had to see the old Japanese film as part of course requirement and the students all discussed matter related to the theme of the film. The film was of course, played with subtitle. The film was released in 1953, 8 years after Japan's surrender to the war. Japan regained sovereignty and new constitution that ensures basic human rights and women's suffrage became effective. The...

Did you know there are male Geishas in Japan? Geisha usually means female escorts in kimono. But there is male version of it. Men in kimono entertain guests in the tea houses or Japanese style restaurants. They are called "Taikomochi" or "Hokan" in Japanese. Last month I went to the lunch show of a male Geisha in Kagurazaka district in Tokyo. The Geisha name is Yugenteitamahachi....

That was first time in my life. I saw them on TV or films but never met actual ones until that time.   I went to one of tea houses in Mukojima, Tokyo, famous Geisha town. I joined...

I went to Kyoto last night and came back home this morning. It was hectic trip. Indeed it was not a travel for private pleasure. The trip was for business. But I could manage to visit some tourist...

I got acquinted with her on internet. She was a Geisha in Kyoto before she moved to Tokyo to be a club hostess in Ginza (place like Fifth Ave. in New York).  This is her blog site . She left...