Geisha (芸者) (/ˈɡeɪʃə/; Japanese: [ɡeːɕa]), also known as geiko (芸子) (in Kyoto and Kanazawa) or geigi (芸妓), are female Japanese performing artists and entertainers...
115 KB (13,106 words) - 22:54, 26 January 2025
Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name...
35 KB (3,904 words) - 09:08, 12 February 2025
up Geisha or geisha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Geisha are traditional Japanese female entertainers. Geisha may also refer to: The Geisha, an...
1 KB (205 words) - 13:30, 18 July 2024
Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel, told in first person perspective, tells...
10 KB (1,155 words) - 20:48, 26 November 2024
Gesha coffee, sometimes referred to as Geisha coffee, is a variety of coffee tree that originated in the Gori Gesha forest, Ethiopia, though it is now...
14 KB (1,488 words) - 04:54, 15 February 2025
Geisha Girl may refer to: Geisha girl Geisha Girl (film), a 1952 American adventure film Geisha Girl (song), a 1957 song by Hank Locklin Geisha (disambiguation)...
214 bytes (58 words) - 20:19, 22 October 2022
Geisha is a type of chocolate made by the Finnish company Fazer, available as a slab, a bar, or pralines. The chocolate includes Japonais hazelnut filling...
3 KB (236 words) - 01:52, 6 June 2024
A Geisha or Gion Festival Music (祇園囃子, Gion Bayashi) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, centred on the geisha milieu in post-war...
10 KB (1,155 words) - 16:10, 21 December 2024
Mineko Iwasaki (redirect from Geisha of Gion)
1949) is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geisha. Iwasaki was the most famous geisha in Japan until her sudden retirement at the age of 29...
10 KB (1,013 words) - 05:54, 3 September 2024
Oiran (section Competition with geisha)
into popularity, which geisha came to both represent and champion. A geisha's loyalties were also held to be more true, as geisha could choose whom they...
36 KB (4,135 words) - 19:38, 7 February 2025
Ben Wa balls (redirect from Geisha balls)
silk string for easy removal. Baoding balls Dalby, Liza (1998). "Geisha Parties". Geisha (2nd ed.). California: University of California Press. p. 145....
6 KB (647 words) - 21:51, 14 December 2024
(舞妓さんちのまかないさん) is a Japanese television series about contemporary life in a geisha house in Kyoto, Japan. The series stars Nana Mori, Natsuki Deguchi, and...
10 KB (891 words) - 17:48, 6 February 2025
Onsen geisha (温泉芸者) is the Japanese term geisha working in onsen (hot spring) resorts or towns, known for their traditions of performance and entertainment...
7 KB (950 words) - 07:22, 23 April 2022
The Geisha, a story of a tea house is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts. The score was composed by Sidney Jones to a libretto by Owen Hall, with...
19 KB (2,306 words) - 06:47, 9 January 2025
Oshiroi (section Geisha and maiko)
Oshiroi (白粉) is a powder foundation traditionally used by kabuki actors, geisha and their apprentices. The word is written with kanji meaning "white powder"...
7 KB (784 words) - 20:30, 13 January 2025
American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997). Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Ruth (née...
6 KB (552 words) - 18:27, 28 May 2024
Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 drama film directed by Rob Marshall and written by Robin Swicord. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by...
31 KB (1,367 words) - 09:47, 31 January 2025
Geisha are an Australian pop rock band, which formed in 1983 as Geisha Detail with founding mainstay Chris Doheny on lead vocals and guitar (later also...
23 KB (1,929 words) - 04:26, 10 February 2025
RoboGeisha (ロボゲイシャ) is a 2009 Japanese sci-fi action B movie written and directed by Noboru Iguchi, visual effects directed by Tsuyoshi Kazuno, and special...
13 KB (1,245 words) - 05:02, 22 December 2024
Sada Abe (category Geishas)
Sada Abe (阿部 定, Abe Sada, May 28, 1905 – after 1971) was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizō Ishida (石田 吉蔵), via strangulation...
41 KB (5,497 words) - 01:27, 12 February 2025
Taikomochi (category Types of geisha)
Taikomochi (太鼓持), also known as hōkan (幇間), were the original male geisha of Japan. The Japanese version of the jester, taikomochi were once attendants...
8 KB (1,127 words) - 16:21, 19 April 2024
the tea ceremony, ikebana, martial arts, calligraphy, origami, onsen, Geisha and games. Japan has a developed system for the protection and promotion...
201 KB (16,449 words) - 15:20, 15 February 2025
My Geisha is a 1962 American comedy-drama film directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, and Bob Cummings...
10 KB (1,079 words) - 07:59, 16 January 2025
The Barbarian and the Geisha (working titles The Townsend Harris Story and The Barbarian) is a 1958 American adventure film directed by John Huston and...
13 KB (1,456 words) - 08:23, 16 January 2025
Geisha in Rivalry (腕くらべ, Ude kurabe, 1916-1917), also translated under the title of Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, is a Japanese novel written by Nagai Kafu...
8 KB (999 words) - 08:07, 29 June 2024
Geisha J. Williams (born Jimenez, c. 1961/1962) is a Cuban American businesswoman. She was the president and CEO of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company...
9 KB (783 words) - 18:06, 6 October 2024
Tales of a Golden Geisha (あげまん, Ageman), also known as A-Ge-Man, is a 1990 Japanese comedy film directed and written by Juzo Itami. It stars Nobuko Miyamoto...
4 KB (362 words) - 10:08, 21 November 2023
Cobbin (engineer/mixer) (2004) Ray – Craig Armstrong (2005) Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (2006) Ratatouille – Michael Giacchino (2007) The Dark Knight...
62 KB (4,451 words) - 23:38, 9 February 2025
Yoshiwara, alongside other licensed districts, would eventually originate geisha, who would become known as the fashionable companions of the chōnin classes...
17 KB (1,925 words) - 14:47, 3 February 2025