There were a lot of Japanese tourists in San Francisco on Wednesday, but it's probably a safe bet that Umeha and Umechika were the only two authentic geisha, in traditional kimono and white makeup, ...
The posters of geishas -- everywhere -- were driving Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani bonkers. "When I first saw those images throughout the city, it annoyed me," says the Bay Area native of the omnipresent ...
Geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha) paint pictures on Kiyomizu ceramic ware during a seminar on traditional Japanese culture in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, on Jan. 24, 2017. About 60 geisha and maiko, ...
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Geisha have been the subject of Westerners’ fascination and fertile imaginings for well over a century, but Lesley Downer’s “Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha” is one of ...
"Handbook of the Collections," Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1981, pg. 190. "Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings and of the Walker Collection," Brunswick, ME ...