Let's be real here. Kyoto is dreamy, ancient, and full of narrow lanes lined with wooden teahouses where geiko and maiko ...

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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 ...

Foreign readers may not be very familiar with the professional traditional entertainers called geisha, but nowadays it’s not unusual even for older Japanese to be unaware of what geisha actually do.

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 ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

When American writer Liza Dalby first ventured to Japan in the late ’60s, misconception of Eastern culture was commonplace in the West. So when she returned in the mid ’70s as a Fulbright scholar, she ...

The ban, implemented in the wake of complaints by the district’s home and business owners, includes a fine of up to 10,000 yen (~$91.90), and prohibits photo-taking on private roads. “Hanamikoji ...

The powerful image of the geisha - scarlet lips across an alabaster-white painted face, a glossy black wig and ornate kimono - has been associated with Japanese culture since the 17th century. Yet, ...

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