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Example sentences for: geisha
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There is no shortage of stereotypes: the beleaguered workaholic salaryman, the exotic geisha, the long-suffering Japanese housewife.
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.
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.
On 18 March the Golden Dragon dance is held at Tokyo’s Senso-ji Temple (in Asakusa), accompanied by a ceremonial carriage bearing several geisha playing traditional musical instruments.
On the eastern edge of town, north of the Umeno Hashi bridge across the Asano River, is the old geisha district, slightly more rundown than Nagamachi but no less quaint.