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Woman in an okiya
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geisha
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Geisha are traditional Japanese female entertainers. Geisha may also refer to: Autobiography of a Geisha , a 1957 book originally published as Geisha, kutō no hanshōgai ("Geisha, Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle") The Geisha , a 1896 British musical ...
Usage examples of geisha.
Even the most brilliant of geisha could rarely blend the two into a single look.
Indeed, his smooth skin, long lashes, and delicately shaped lips would have improved the appearance of any of the geisha present.
Heiko passed her shamisen to the other geisha and came to sit beside Genji.
Where geisha and sleeping arrangements are concerned, I must most humbly claim the greater expertise.
Most women, including the most practiced geisha of the first rank, tended to become less attractive when excessively intoxicated.
While many of her fellow geisha had grown much less formal in behavior as they had grown less sober, Heiko had become more prim.
Mayonaka no Heiko, a famous geisha in her time, to America in the same year.
By the time they got there, Tsuda was certain his manly parts had suffered such a battering against the hard saddle that he would not be able to attempt felicitous contact with geisha ever again.
The geisha house had risen to considerable regional prominence in recent years, and was reputed to rival the best in Edo and Kyoto.
Perhaps Great Lords like Genji and beautiful geisha like Lady Heiko were reborn in new, exciting manifestations in exotic, distant lands.
Even if he was the child of a geisha, he was a qualified male heir, and Genji had no other at present.
And even though he had apparently uncovered a vital secret about Genji, possibly touching on the missing geisha, Heiko.
Genji, a Peer of the Realm, Minister without Portfolio in the government of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Mutsuhito, former Great Lord of Akaoka Domain, lover of geisha and missionary and helpless murderer of both, smiled that slight, self-mocking smile that was so often misunderstood, and walked calmly toward the fulfillment of his vision.
In addition to the ubiquitous geisha, there were now the two unfortunate young women who had recently entered a most degrading slavery in his household as concubines.
If a child is born to a geisha or concubine, I could perhaps convince myself that what I saw was no vision, but only a dream, as you say.