Arriving in Gion – Kyoto’s famous geisha district ... music at university to pursue this ancient art form. The sacrifices a geisha makes cannot be understated. Once a woman becomes a ...

It was a little more than 25 years ago that I first walked the streets of Gion, the centuries-old geisha district of Kyoto. I was jet ... of the classical arts, designated by black vertical ...

Kyoto, the birthplace of the geisha tradition ... Only in Hakone do geisha belong to a union; the Geisha Arts Association takes care of all our needs and each woman is afforded a retirement ...

The geishas glide with measured steps across a wooden stage, offering a glimpse of a long-misunderstood tradition that is ...

KYOTO--Geisha and their "maiko" trainees are being ... according to the Kyoto Traditional Art Foundation, a public interest foundation working to preserve and pass down the kagai district culture.

KYOTO--A geisha with her face covered by a plain surgical face mask hardly fits the traditional dainty image of the practitioners of the centuries-old art form that is largely hidden from the ...