TOKYO — Tsumami kanzashi are Japanese hair ornaments that were worn by geisha and young daughters of the nobility in a tradition dating back hundreds of years. They’re complex and gorgeous, and the ...

The discreet, refined and graceful world of the Japanese geisha has been turned upside-down by a rebellion: A group of apprentice geisha, or maiko, have accused their training house of cruelty and set ...

KYOTO (Reuters) - Just eight years ago, Komomo was a Japanese teenager living in Beijing, riding her bicycle around the city and playing pool with her friends on weekends. Sign up here. Now she is a ...

Westerners think they know all about geishas, those delicate Japanese women with their virgin milky white faces accented by a jarring pop of red lipstick, their feet sitting in clacking wooden sandals ...

The beauty of one of Tokyo's most popular geisha has been preserved in a series of stunning postcards taken more than a century ago. The collection of images shows Hawaryu, who worked in the Japanese ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she grew older. In the process, she revived and protected not only her ...

Take a step back into old Japan with some geisha dances and rakugo, the traditional form of comic storytelling that flourished among Edo's merchant classes. Pieces like the Edo-era vaudeville ...

Solid, green and iridescent, it bears little resemblance to a standard lipstick. But for hundreds of years, Japan's geisha would never leave home without dipping a wet brush into a natural compound ...

The figure of the geisha is one steeped in mystery, tradition and intrigue. And, until now, becoming a geisha in Japan has been a strictly female-only affair. But now 70-year-old Mary Murdoch, ...

SHERIDAN, WY / ACCESSWIRE / January 6, 2022 / The Geisha Tea House team is pleased to announce that its presale at 0.0555 ETH goes live Jan 10th. Geisha Tea House NFTs are the newest addition to the ...