Japan's geisha are experts in their field, but they're often treated like tourist attractions. Learn why Kyoto officials have ...

KYOTO, Japan — On the quiet streets of Kyoto you will get a glimpse of them. Dressed in Kimono. The familiar white makeup. Walking quickly. That is the extent of what most people see of a geisha.

Geisha numbered as many as 80,000 in Japan during the 1920s, and were still part of a thriving industry as recently as the 1950s and ’60s. According to Keiji Chiba, 66, ...

Intimate shots of maikos – Japan’s geisha apprentices By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN 4 minute read Published 7:05 PM EDT, Wed August 9, 2017 Link Copied! ...

KYOTO, Japan » Like ghosts from another time, the real geishas seem to float silently along the streets at twilight, making their way to teahouses and restaurants where they will entertain elite ...

Japanese geisha “Chacha” sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not in front of her but miles away, watching online.

For decades, a pic's international marketing followed the cues of the all-important domestic launch. But the Japanese campaign for "Memoirs of a Geisha" is more lavish -- and on a much faster ...

Kyoto, which was Japan’s capital for more than 1,000 years, is a center of geisha culture with its own traditions. People here are quick to point out that geisha is the Tokyo term— that the ...

KYOTO -- Here in the Gion geisha district of Japan's ancient capital, even one bad hair day can cost a girl her career. So it is no wonder that Tetsuo Ishihara is the man with the most popular ...

The cherry blossoms had come and gone and soft June rains had begun to fall on the dark wooden houses near the Sumida River when Aguri, 6, was confronted with her life’s work. “I didn&#… ...

In the street outside the geisha house, I felt I had stepped into a Japanese painting, a Hiroshige perhaps – an empty cobbled lane, a single lantern casting a triangle of yellow light, a few ...