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 ...

Arthur Golden’s novel Memoirs of a Geisha starts with a ”translator’s note” explaining how one Jakob Haarhuis (hair-house?) came to meet a retired geisha and record her life story. Of course, it’s a ...

1933. 20 years before, Katsuzo was in love with a geisha who gave him a daughter. They tried to run away together but they were caught and she was killed right before his eyes. Now he is a zegen, aka ...

Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda teams up with Netflix for this nine-part adaptation of Aiko Koyama’s award-winning manga series, Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House. Set in Kyoto’s ...

Falling snow and my cat, Mango, were the perfect companions as I dove into my latest book. With my recent obsession of international literature, particularly that from China and Japan, it was an easy ...

KYOTO—Geisha served tea beneath a cloud of pink petals at Kitano Tenmangu shrine’s plum blossom festival, which commemorates the virtues of the shrine’s deity, on Feb. 25. The shrine, a famed tourist ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

In post-war Japan, sixteen-year-old Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion, in Kyoto asking her to be a maiko (geisha apprentice). Eiko explains that her mother - who was a geisha ...

Toei's film series about Hot Springs Geisha. Onsen geisha (温泉芸者) is the Japanese term geisha working in onsen (hot spring) resorts or towns, known for their traditions of performance and entertainment ...