No, it is only A beautifulgeisha swaying down the street.
A geisha tucks her robe well up to her knees; and the samisen strike up the quick melody, 'Kompira fund-fund.
The geisha is only what she has been made in answer to foolish human desire for the illusion of love mixed with youth and grace, but without regrets or responsibilities: wherefore she has been taught, besides ken, to play at hearts.
The familiarity which foreign tourists in Japan frequently permit themselves with geisha or with waiter-girls, though endured with smiling patience, is really much disliked, and considered by native observers an evidence of extreme vulgarity.
Yet thus much is true-- that, like the kitten, the geisha is by profession a creature of prey.
But the dancing-girls of ancient times were not as the geisha of to-day.
Therefore, to play with a geisha any game much more serious than ken, or at least go, is displeasing to the gods.
If the geisha make the sign of the Gun, you must instantly, and in exact time to the music, make the sign of the Fox, who cannot use the Gun.
Always in the dwelling which a band of geisha occupy there is a strange image placed in the alcove.
Notwithstanding all this apparent comradeship, a certain rigid decorum between guest and geisha is invariably preserved at a Japanese banquet.
Now, to play ken with a geisha requires a perfectly cool head, a quick eye, and much practice.
The music becomes quicker and quicker and the runners run faster and faster, for they must keep time to the melody; and the geisha wins.
Then, making your way through the press to the temple steps, you see two geisha seated upon the matting within, playing and singing, and a third dancing before a little table.
The geisha ya, or establishments where dancing-girls are trained, and let out by the day or evening to tea-houses or private parties, are usually managed by women.
A liberal education, and more freedom in early life for women, has been suggested, and is now being tried, but the problem of the geisha and her fascination is a deep one in Japan.
When thoroughly taught, they form a valuable investment, and well repay the labor spent upon them, for a popular geisha commands a good price everywhere, and has her time overcrowded with engagements.
Geisha ya, an establishment where geishas may be hired, 286.
Every afternoon it was particularly the custom about tea time for boats containing music hall quartettes or a boatload of Geisha girls to pull up in front of the house-boat and regale the occupants with the latest music hall songs.
There was one set of Geisha girls who were masked below the eyes, one of whom sang what she fondly imagined was a typical American song calculated to captivate her American audience.
Any one who has listened to the Geisha or heard the singing of trained Japanese would certainly not agree in such statements as I have referred to.
It is a long cry from the graceful Geisha to the inanities and banalities which appear to be the stock-in-trade of music-hall performances in this country.
The well-trained Geisha girl has, for centuries, because of her superior education, received the confidences of Japanese men; while a Japanese man would scorn to talk things over with his wife.
Geisha and a young girl standing on the bank near the rapids of the Tamagawa.
Two women standing beside a seated geisha who is playing on a samisen.
But the Great Prince was sent to a distant island, And the little geisha girl Never put on her robe of blue again.
A "double license" girl means one who is licensed both as a geisha and a prostitute.
The horror which the Western man of high character felt when he thought of the future of the little girls in attendance on geisha was not a horror generated by Plato.
At such a dinner the guests kneel on cushions ranged round the four walls of the room, and each man has a low lacquer table to himself, and a geisha to wait on him.
It was at the inn in the evening that someone told me that in the town which is dependent on the shrine there were "a hundred prostitutes, thirty geisha and some waitresses.
In the present organisation of society some geishaplay a legitimate rôle.
No doubt most foreigners generalise too freely in identifying the professions of geisha and joro.
When the geisha is not bringing in new dishes or replenishing the saké bottle, she kneels before the table and chatters entertainingly.
At the same time the degrading character of the life led by manygeisha cannot be doubted.
The fact that the county was in a remote part of Japan may be held, perhaps, to account for the fact that there were in it, I was assured, only 14 geisha and 8 women known to be of immoral character.
At the Maple Club the Geisha girls displayed American and Japanese flags.
The Geisha girls are often called in to entertain guests at a private dinner, the performance being before, not after, the meal.
The Maple Club is the most famous restaurant in Japan, and the Geishagirls employed there stand at the head of their profession.
In this connection a word should be said in regard to the Geisha girls who have furnished such ample material for the artist and the decorator.
The very same girls exhibit alternately stolidity and vivacity according as they are acting as geisha or as respectable members of society.
But there is a difference between the ballet and the geisha dances, and it is so wide that there is no true comparison; for whereas the ballet stimulates and excites, these Japanese movements hypnotise and lull.
Yet might not even a geisha feel a genuine passion?
Lieutenant Pinkerton, equally ignorant with Lieutenant Loti but uninstructed evidently, marries a geisha whose father had made the happy dispatch at the request of the Son of Heaven after making a blunder in his military command.
He learns of one of the latter when he suggests to the broker that he might marry a charming geisha who had taken his fancy at a tea house.
Not like one who goes to Geisha street without the leave of parents or uncles," advised the maid, with great severity.
I have seen him doing that later, where the lanterns shine in Geisha street, and the little girl was not Yone.
What could they think of her mother playing at Geisha girl in her own home at the very hour of its wreck?
I've only a moment to spare, for at three o'clock I lose my identity and become a Geisha girl.
Anyway, you don't match the little Ponsonby and Chatfield minxes that your mother has chosen for her six Geisha girls, for you are a head taller than the bunch.
But having come hither over an unruffled sea with fair soft breezes all the way, small indeed is the gift which they give to the temple of the god, and marvellously large the sums which they pay unto geisha and keepers of taverns.
In the corner is inserted a geisha girl's visiting-card, actual size.
Finally, from 1141 on, the government opened up to twenty-three geishahouses for the entertainment of soldiers who were far from home in the capital and had no possibility for other amusements.
Something of this must have shone in her face, for Geisha McCoy's tone was half-pettish, half-apologetic as she spoke.
Geisha McCoy was looking up at her with a whimsical half-smile.
Geisha McCoy, who got a thousand a week for singing a few songs and chatting informally with the delighted hundreds on the other side of the footlights.
Six months had wrought a subtle change in Geisha McCoy.
Geisha McCoy slid down among her rumpled covers, and nestled her head in the lumpy, tortured pillows.
She knew, too, that her name was Geisha McCoy, and she knew what that name meant, just as you do.
She had even laughed and quickened and responded toGeisha McCoy's manipulation of her audience, just as you have.
Geisha girls danced while singing a specially composed chant of welcome, and an elaborate luncheon was served in an adjoining hall.
Our party had been entertained by the Geisha girls, sung almost to distraction (you know it is impolite for the sing-song girls of China to stop singing until requested to stop).
From the crowd which seethed around the Geisha came malignant outcries: "Make her unmask!
The Geisha curtsied, lifted her small fingers, laughed in an intimate tone, waved her fan, struck first one man and then another on the shoulder, then hid her face behind her fan and frequently opened out her rose parasol.
The Geisha screamed and somehow tore herself away, after having hit the malicious little woman with her fist.
In the corridor the Ear of Corn rushed at the Geisha again and caught hold of her dress.
In this way he carried the Geisha the entire length of the corridor, which culminated in a narrow door opening into the Club dining-room.
The Geisha almost succeeded in tearing herself away, but she was again surrounded.
The artist Liudmilla painted a Geisha mask: it was a yellowish but agreeable thin face, with a slight motionless smile, oblique eyes and a small, narrow mouth.
The rumour went round that the Geisha was Kashtanova, the actress, very popular with the male portion of local society.
The crowd, with the Geisha in the middle, swayed furiously across the room, sweeping onlookers from their feet.
Bengalsky kept his word and told no one that the Geisha was a disguised boy.
I will give my card to the most beautiful of ladies," said Tishkov, and handed his card to the Geisha with a gallant bow.
One whisper from a geisha had numbed his will; one smile blinded his eyes.
She remembered that in other days, when banquets were given in her father's house, and dancers served the wine, a free geisha named Kimika had often caressed her.
III Between Kimiko and other geisha there was a difference of gentle blood.
Other geisha grew into fame, but no one was even classed with her.
The professional appellation borne by an unlucky or unsuccessful geisha is never given to her successor.
To win any renown in her profession, a geisha must be pretty or very clever; and the famous ones are usually both--having been selected at a very early age by their trainers according to the promise of such qualities.
For her own part, Tam was finding this traditional "geisha party" extremely juvenile and silly.
Tam guessed she was pushing forty but knew that aficionados of geisha prefer talent over youth.
Then at a dramatic moment two more geisha entered with a flourish and began a classical dance, all fans and rustling silk.
