The local council in Kyoto’s historic Gion will ban sightseers from the district’s narrow backstreets where the Japanese city’s iconic geisha trot daintily between client engagements after a spike in ...

According to bestselling author Golden (Memoirs of Geisha), the reason why so many Westerners misunderstand the social function of geisha is because there is no clear counterpart to their profession ...

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