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Your curiosity and patience will inevitably reward you with a glimpse of a genuine geisha or maiko (apprentice geisha), the copious layers of her opulent — and unimaginably heavy — silk kimono rustling as she hurries to an appointment or a training session.
Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.
Here you will find magnificent temples, shrines, and pagodas; exquisite Zen gardens; sumptuous traditional feasts; and, of course, that most alluring and misunderstood of creatures — the kimono-clad geisha.
For antique furniture and miscellaneous items, Kyoto’s famous geisha district of Gion has one of the finest selections in Japan.
These were the forerunners of the geisha — literally “accomplished person” — with a beauty and refinement that the merchants did not seek in their wives, whom they valued for their childbearing and good housekeeping.