What is "kiku"

Usage examples of "kiku".

And even though he had agreed with her employer, the Mama-san Gyoko, to pay five times the usual price, he was still not sure that Kiku would stay.

She had been with Kiku for two years and Kiku was responsible for her training.

With an effort, Kiku took her eyes off the pure white rice that she would have loved to have eaten and dismissed her own hunger.

In the next room, which was the finest of all the rooms in the tea house, the only one with a garden of its own, Kiku picked up the long-handled samisen.

It took Kiku very little time to renew her makeup as Suisen combed and brushed her hair and retied it into the shimoda style.

Another moment and the maid returned and beckoned Kiku and bowed low as she swept past.

The old woman allowed herself to be cajoled and Kiku followed Midori onto the veranda and into the garden.

Presently Omi-san has no consorts though Kiku, the most famous courtesan in Izu, is almost like a consort.

If I can make the arrangement I require, then perhaps I will let my lovely Kiku go.

Mariko translated with equal formality, then Kiku let out a peal of laughter.

Mariko quaffed hers, glad that she was no longer alone, uneasily sure that Kiku could read her thoughts.

They chatted and played silly games and then, when Kiku judged that the time was correct, she asked them if they would like to see the garden and the pleasure rooms.

Then Kiku laid out other rings for the man to wear, ivory or elastic or silken rings with nodules or bristles or ribbons or attachments and appendages of every kind, made of ivory or horsehair or seeds or even tiny bells.

It was refilled immediately by Kiku, who leaned over and held her long sleeve with her left hand so that it would not touch the low lacquered table as she poured with her right.

This was the code sentence that Gyoko could freely use in front of any client which told Kiku that her most special client, Omi-san, was in the Tea House.