A geisha poses with her shamisen, a three-stringed instrument, in the 1880s. Geisha and maiko traditionally play kouta style music on the shamisen.

Hirokazu Kore-eda infuses the world of the Japanese geisha with his signature gentle humanism in The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, his first drama series for Netflix, launching worldwide ...

A maiko will have decorations such as flowers in her hair; a geisha will not. The maiko’s obi (kimono belt) will hang nearly to the floor while the geisha’s is folded into a square shape on ...

A maiko (center), an apprentice geiko, and geikos from Japan's ancient capital Kyoto, perform a traditional dance in Tokyo on June 21. Getty Images KYOTO, JAPAN – Koharu is 17 but doesn’t go ...

Just looking like a geisha is not enough for some young women. Turning away from Hello Kitty and the modernity of Japanese life, they make the choice to earn a living as a geisha. Maiko as young ...

A maiko will have decorations such as flowers in her hair; a geisha will not. The maiko’s obi (kimono belt) will hang nearly to the floor while the geisha’s is folded into a square shape on ...

KYOTO, Japan — The night began with Champagne and French wine in the Old World, wooden-framed home of a friend of Akiko Fukai, Japan’s leading dress historian and curator, whose Kyoto Costume ...

Travel Disappearing art of geisha in Japan By Patricia Sheridan May 4, 2014 1/3 ASSOCIATED PRESS ­Fukukimi, a maiko or geisha apprentice, from the Ishihatsu house of geishas in Kyoto, Japan.

Kimono-clad geisha and maiko arrive for a ceremony to start the business year in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2020. Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, will be closing off some private ...