KANAZAWA--Discount geisha shows, held in the daytime, no less, unthinkable in pre-pandemic days, are catching on here, with both the performers and their fans welcoming the unusual format of the ...

It started as a joke over too much sake. It was 1975, in Kyoto, Japan. The American Fulbright student was dining with a motherly ex-geisha who had befriended her and with some of the other geisha, and ...

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 ...

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. Divvied up into two parts, this popular ...

The producers of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show have defended their decision to cast a white male actor in the role of a geisha, explaining geishas are "not exclusively ethnically Japanese or ...

In a coup for the region, Jill Clay and Katie Chaplin have arranged for the public to meet two geisha for the first time. Sarah Foster has her own rather strange encounter with them. PERHAPS I should ...

The grey men in suits and the willowy beauties in kimonos have always seemed oddly matched, yet Japan's conservative politicians hope that a revival of the geisha tradition is a sign that ...

There was much fanfare when Oxford-educated Fiona Graham became the first westerner to be admitted to the closed world of Japan's geisha hostesses in 2007. But that is now her past. She has left the ...

Geishas in Japan have an enigmatic charm about them. They are so revered that a teacher of the art was once declared a “living national treasure” in the country. Seeing a real geisha is not that easy, ...