The Kawabata geisha community dates back to the Meiji Era (1868-1912). During its heyday in the prewar period, nearly 200 geisha worked here. Now, only three geisha and one maiko are active.

Kikuno, 47, runs an “ochaya” teahouse, which operates geisha parties, in Ganrinin. Ganrinin, which opened in the Meiji Era (1868-1912), used to have more than 10 “okiya” lodging houses for ...

The trend was later adopted by women in the 17th century, when geisha - high class female entertainers - began to appear. Then, during the Showa era - from 1926 to 1989 - the word "Shironuri" was ...

Yoshida, whose mother was rumored to be a geisha, had been adopted by a childless ... characteristics attributed to the leaders of that era..., such as education in the Chinese classics, patriotic ...

Matthew Murphy Ken Watanabe plays the King, a role that won Brynner an Oscar in 1957 That man is Ken Watanabe, the Japanese star of films including Memoirs of a Geisha and Letters from Iwo Jima ...

Stone Temple Pilots and Live celebrated the 30th anniversaries of their career-defining albums with a $20 Bay Area show.

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The shinkansen will deposit you in prefecture capital Kanazawa, where temples, an old samurai district, a small historic ...

Essential recordings from the first decade of Pavarotti’s 45 year recording career with Decca – an era of Puccini ... a 15-year-old geisha known also as Madama Butterfly.

The Indonesian genre maestro is so determined to make the most brutal action movie of all time that he forgets to have any ...

If you're keen to get stuck into something similar to Shogun after the Emmys or looking for more historical epics while you ...