As a little girl in Ohio, I begged my mother to buy me a real Japanese geisha doll with wigs. It cost 3.50 and she explained this was nearly a day's pay but I did get the doll and still have it. It is still in its box and I will sell it. It is nearly perfect and the head seems to be of some very fragile porcelain. The box lid explains the wigs and what their uses were in ceremonies. I am in France. Good video, uprated. The doll was bought in the 1960s.
Geisha were not and still are not prostitutes. In fact, a geisha was more likely to sleep with only one man in her entire life. Since geisha are nto permitted to marry, they would lose their mizuage to one man and then accept one man's offer to be her danna. If she slept with anyone else besides her danna, she was not a true geisha in the eyes of her people. Danna is as close to marriage as a geisha would get.
Maiko are Geisha-In-Training. Thus the lower lip is painted. Once a Maiko has completed her training (don't remember exactly how many it would be) she goes through a graduation ceremony into a Geisha. As a full fledged Geisha she paints both her upper and lower lips. There's so much more into understanding the Geisha world and doing plenty of research will help to understand them better. There are youtube videos you can watch about the Geisha as well as documentaries you can find through google.
actually memoirs of a geisha is a very good movie and book, i don't think there are western stereotypes in it. the book writer informed himself very good.
Such a shame that I can't get him to make one for me! My husband calls me his 'blonde geisha' - classy, intelligent, beautiful & feminine. At NO time has the Reference been made at a sexual level.
This tutorial sucked, lol. I only got to see bits and pieces of doing the hair. But thats ok I already seen how they do it all the way through. But still damn them XD
I have always enjoyed the history of the Geisha and to able to see how the theater can reproduce such history in a wig is out of this world. Thanks you fro this.
Umm I'm pretty sure memoirs of a geisha never said anything about geisha being prostitutes. How ever it did mention the existence of prostitutes who DRESSED like geisha [emphasis on the words 'dressed like', not WERE], who wore the obis backwards so the knot was at the front. Chapter seven page 94 in the book, if you don't believe me.
So in conclusion people saying memoirs of a geisha called geisha prostitutes are mistaken and have clearly never read the book.
This is real art! Amazing! Formerly geisha wigs but did not use styling their hair, they take hours, supporting his neck and slept on small wooden supports. I love the Japanese tradition!
Ps. Excuse my English but I'm Italian and I am in the process of learning English, I hope I have not made too many mistakes :-)
It looks like a good thing to have wigs. Only 50 years ago geikos used their actual hair and had to sleep on special pillows so as not to mess their hair. And it caused them to get bald spots after some years.
That is correct, for the most part. The strain of the hair style can cause bald patches that need to be covered up.
However, the wigs made here are for kabuki stage actors, not maiko or geisha. This one is for (as the video says) the character of an Edo period female. It is intended for an actor, but preserves the hairstyles of the later Edo period.
@contortionist104 I know they do and i know what maikos are. I was just saying it seems to be a modern thing to use wigs sometimes. Maybe they are more for tourists to dress up in. But geishas often do lose some of their hair eventually.
@SauryGirl1 um ... you have that kinda mixed up. i have what i jokingly refer to as the big book of geisha and it says the older you get the less often you need to wear a wig for every day appointments. plus the meiko have more complicated, and therefore more expensive, hairdos and it would be way to expensive to wear it as normal hair.
@mangakoibito You are right, what I ment is that maiko use theyre own hair, only geisha/ geiko wear wig and until theyre around 30 they wear a wig, but after theyre not expected too do so, likewise witht he ehavy make up. but may use it for very special occasion. Geisha/geiko do not go too hairdresser too have theyre hair in theyre simple hairstyle after the age off 30, they can easy make it on theyre own.
@mangakoibito Maiko dont pay for theyre visits toot he hairdresser the okiya does. and the maikos dont have more complicated hairstyle then geiko/geisha, iff you should doo what maiko do as a geikoa nd use you own hair it would be more complicated (if its the hairstyle off shimada wich worn before age 30)
The reason geisha started too wear wig its because that a wig was less expensive, and they got bold spots on theyre head from the maiko period.
@mangakoibito It's funny that you tell someone they have something mixed up and you have this " big book of Geisha" and yet you say meiko instead of maiko. Um...just sayin'.
@WillyyyV You stated and I quote "oh how I love ignorant Americans...not".. my comments was are you any better then the Americans you think are so ignorant?
@chrmedbabygirl, well for one, I never make a comment about a group of people that I have never met myself. I have traveled the world, and have seen many faces but I never make a comment about a kind of people that I have never met before [in this case, geisha which I did meet when I visited Kyoto from Tokyo back in 2006]
@chrmedbabygirl Well for one WillyyyV posted a sarcastic comment on the ignorent americans who sterotype everything and don't care to find out the truth behind things because they're lazy...........
@KaiPendragon How may Americans have you meet? Are you from the United States? If not then go back behind the rock you came from. And how would you know these things have you ever been here. Like other countries don't stereotype. What do you think you are doing with your comments.
@chrmedbabygirl I am from the us and I am surrounded by people who can't find their own state on a map muchless pay attention to the details of a forein culture. And if you also notice, we Americans slaughter languages not our own sterotype everything. I am just pointing the truth out like WillyyyV............
@KaiPendragon You would get that no matter where you go in this world. And it must be nice to be so uppity that maybe you could take the time to help them learn instead of stereotyping them like you say everyone else is doing. So get of your almighty high horse and do something to change it instead of bad mouthing the country that has treated you and yours so well and gave you all the freedoms that you have now.
@chrmedbabygirl I already do, but some people don't give a royal crap to what other cultures have to offer. And I know that other countries do but I live in America so thats the sterotype I live with.......and what makes you the one to critisize others oppinoins so easily? If america has the freedoms you say it does then why complain at me voicing my oppinoin???
@KaiPendragon You are the one who was judging me for my opinion not the other way around. And if you dont like the stereotypes that move somewhere else. Because no matter where you live you are going to find things you dont like about the area and culture. So my voicing my opinion was wrong in your opinion and apparently only you and willy are aloud to say or post their views according to you. Very nice.
@scully2222, strange, last time I checked...hookers have sex for money. Am I right? Guess what, 99.999999% of geisha are virgins. See this problem. Yes, you are a fool. Probably an american fool who has not even been to Japan before.
Geisha were not prostitutes. Memoirs of a geisha did NOT have the proper info.
"Geisha girls" were Japanese women who worked as prostitutes during the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan. They almost exclusively serviced American GIs stationed in the country, who wrongly referred to them as "Geesha girls." Adding to the confusion these women dressed in kimono & imitated geishas. Americans unfamiliar w/ the Japanese culture couldn't tell the difference.
As to the reference to Memoirs of a Geisha. They did have to proper info. They did their research before filming the movie and the actoresses had to learn how to be Geisha. If you watch the 2nd dvd disc they explain it. And in the movie they even make reference to how geisha are seperate from prostitiutes. And the selling of the virginity is no longer practiced.
No they did not. And even if they did to some degree, they still should have told the difference between Chiyo-- sorry, Sayuri's geisha type and the REAL Geishas. You see, there is a difference. For a true Geisha, the Mizuage is the cellebration of her getting her period. For Sayuri, she was the kind, a lower kind, that sold there virginity. I am sorry, but it is simply NOT the same. Plus, that book WAS terribly cruel and emphasized things in the wronge way.
@chrmedbabygirl, but if you watch the video of the women he interviewed, you will discover the truth. Her life has been ruined because of this man who lied about her past and not only added in false dirty details to make it more 'Hollywood' but also included her name, against her wishes. She even had to publish her OWN BOOK to tell the truth of the matter. Geisha were never prostitute. It amazes me how people will believe everything they see in movies. Wow, you should be proud of yourself. Not.
Studying the history, it seems some prostitutes pretended to be geisha, and yes, some geisha took sponsers or sold their virginity. But this does not make geisha prostitutes, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong. ^_^
You're correct. Prost. would imitate Geisha and ruined their reputation in Ginza. It's said that women in Ginza were, and still may, be forced into sex around Ginza. It's only in Ginza, not all everywhere back in the Allied Occupation of Japan. Prostitutes became known as Geesha Girls.
It's very easy to understand what Geisha do. It's easily compared to how women of Society were expected to behave during the late Victorian era, as proper women with regal social graces. I guess one could say that the Japanese kept the tradition of having respectable women as role models.
And it's "gomenasai" as one word. One of my friends is fluent in Japanese.
MAN HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE JAPAN?, HOME OF THE OLDEST MONARCHY, GEISHA, THE SAMURAI AND FEUDAL PERIODS, SUSHI, KABUKI, SONY, ONE OF THE OLDESR CULTURES KNOWN =THE JOMON= AWG I COULD GO ON AND ON....and im stuck in texas, a world away:/
Geisha or Geiko is Adult artist, Maiko is young artist. Geisha are not prostitutes, there is a form of them who dont dress up with make up that were sold to the pleasure district back in the day in 1940's
Geisha are the higher class counterparts of prostitutes. They CAN sell themselves to men if they want, but it will damage their reputation. And the ones who weren't beautiful enough to be a geisha were sent to pleasure districts.
Geisha (芸者) or Geiko (芸妓) are traditional, female Japanese entertainers, whose skills include performing various Japanese arts, such as classical music and dance. Contrary to popular belief, geishas are not prostitutes.
It was because of Ginza during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Prostitutes would mimic Geisha. They became known as Geesha Girls by westerners coming there and not knowing the difference.
@dollfinluvr81 : yeah.. i believe they're not prostitutes.. others call them that.. they were an entertainer..but in art.. they entertain them by dancing and not by body..
i really admire the rich tradtions of japanese hair styling and make-up. their cultural history is so refined.
i also appreciate people who answer questions on geisha with actual knowledge on the topic instead of just seeing memoirs of a geisha or believing the usual western stereotype.
Memoirs of a geisha was not accurate on their life style. a geisha did not have to sell her virginity to become a geisha, they had to take a test in dance schools to become a maiko, if you failed you were to become a sing and shamisan player, in some areas a girl at a youg age was saught out to be come a atotori or successor for an okia which is an adopted girl, or in another case the propetiress that has a daughter takes over the okiya.
Maybe you should read the book first. I know you didn't because it said most of that stuff in the book. Of course the movie was not accurate, it wasn't meant to be a documentary!
Actually, it depends on the time period and the district. The mizuage custom did exist in the way Golden describes it. Or at least that's what I read in biographies of two different geisha.
It doesn't anymore, that's for sure. And even when and where it did exist, there were still big differences between real prostitutes and geisha.
@bc9874 lol i didnt belive all of the things in memoirs of a geisha. lol though i must admit.. i go o sleep to this movie almost every night. so dramatic.
@bc9874 thank you. i loved the book, but the film was a travesty of inaccuracy. They didnt think western audience would like the real makeup and hair so they did that hi fashion stylized CRAP! It is an insult to all who have devoted thier time to the study of tradiitional japanese hairstyles.Im not the expert this man is,but i am often called upon to design geisha or samurai styled wigs,and i have made an extensive study of traditional technique/look, adapting it to western style lace wigs.
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The original Geisha Girl was "China Baby Doll", our former Queen, The Goddess Isis, aka The Madonna, when she incarnated in China. She of course, did it best! Our former good Queen has stepped down so that a new Queen and King can reign over the Earth. She is returning home restored and independent. With her, she takes the "Geisha Girl". The fashion ideas unique to the goddess will become unperceivable within 2 centuries.
The interpretation wasn't exactly 100% on. Hahaha. I think they should have just left it in Japanese and put subtitles on the bottom in English, so everyone else who can understand Japanese can listen to the man speak without being interrupted by that woman.
love asian hairs, love the texture their silkyness etc. so furtunate 2 have two asian niece's mix with rican came out with their hair i get to style it everytime and this is what i will try jajajaja..awesome dude!! need ur talent... very favi :)
Oh my God this is really an impressive result and a fine art! Wonderful. But what happens to their hair after a few years? Isn't this rough for the hair?
I imagine they do, but I'm sure they will have a way to cover these spots nicely. After all they have long, beautiful, black hair. It won't be difficult.
they make wigs now instead... actual geisha hair makes you go bald in certain areas... so most of the complex styles are wigs... also used in theater...
yeah and there hair was only washed once a week or two weeks so they didn't have to keep having it done. OUCH. And the older Geisha women have bald patches from all the pulling over the years:(
As hair dresser, when you have textured and thick hair like many non-caucasian ethnicities do... It's best to not wash the hair for health and ability to style for up to three weeks. Even some caucasian beauty pageant girls do this. It's more healthy when you have coarse and textured hair, but not so for people with fine thin hair. It's because most modern shampoo contains chemicals that deprive the hair of naturally nourishing oils that make hair healthy and easy to style. Just FYI ;-)
Yes you should use conditioner. Asian hair is thick and textured, but it's not like other non-caucasian hair types, in that it's not hard to style when you first wash it because usually it does not curl. I would say was it with a mild shampoo (From an organic health store) free of the chemicals sodium laureth sulfate, sodium lauryl sulfate, amonium laurly sulfate, and amonianum laureth sulfate. These chemicals are very harsh. Wash once to twice a week and condition.
This is false. Many non-Asians have hair like you described and many Asians do not. I'm not Asian and my hair absolutely does not curl or wave, ever. My Asian friends are pissed that I don't use a straightener like they have to. So it varies quite a bit.
I never meant to say all Asians have the same hair type. There's a lot of different variety of ethnic groups that are called Asian. It would like me saying that all Caucasian hair is fine, thin and straight... While many fully Caucasian people have hair that is fine, thin and straight, there are certainly some who don't.
PrincessGiana would you please give me some advice on hair.
I have curly/very wavy non-caucasian hair. In order to keep it from not frizzing up i have to use stuff like moose or creme gel.When i go to sleep it gets all tangled, which forces me to wash it again so i can style it.
Do you have any advice on keeping hair healthy? products you can recommend?I never straighten it, i wash it almost daily,stated above, and my hair is at least a foot and a half long.
I'm sorry, but geisha wigs always look so fake. They're so low on the forehead they look weird. Couldn't they come up with more believable looking wigs?
Actually Geisha do wear wigs, Maiko(apprentice Geiko) do not. They use their real hair. Sometimes the Geiko (geisha) will have their real hair done but this is very rare, and is usually for Ceremony.
Someone actualy knows their stuff instead of having just watched memoirs of a Geisha and thinking they know it all.....lol. You're absolutley right of course.
I agree with you too. it's hard to find any information on this elusive culture, but the worst thing to do is take any ignorant piece of information that seems to be connected and think you know what you're doing. I've been doing my best to learn about the rites and customs, and especially the dress for geisha and maiko, and what I knew a year ago makes me cringe in horror considering what I know now. I was an idiot then and I'm still learning.
ok im so sorry i have to do this but THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!! BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES! If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours anyways good job congrats!
As a little girl in Ohio, I begged my mother to buy me a real Japanese geisha doll with wigs. It cost 3.50 and she explained this was nearly a day's pay but I did get the doll and still have it. It is still in its box and I will sell it. It is nearly perfect and the head seems to be of some very fragile porcelain. The box lid explains the wigs and what their uses were in ceremonies. I am in France. Good video, uprated. The doll was bought in the 1960s.
slobomotion 3 months ago
Geisha were not and still are not prostitutes. In fact, a geisha was more likely to sleep with only one man in her entire life. Since geisha are nto permitted to marry, they would lose their mizuage to one man and then accept one man's offer to be her danna. If she slept with anyone else besides her danna, she was not a true geisha in the eyes of her people. Danna is as close to marriage as a geisha would get.
TheMoonlightPixie 3 months ago 8
I DIDNT REALIZE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE TOUGH ECONOMY COULD STILL AFFORD TO HANG WIT GEISHA
pbul7306 4 months ago
What do you think? Would it be possible for this hair style to be done on very long hair? I have like 90 cm long hair... :DDDD
NeckoChibi 5 months ago
Maiko are Geisha-In-Training. Thus the lower lip is painted. Once a Maiko has completed her training (don't remember exactly how many it would be) she goes through a graduation ceremony into a Geisha. As a full fledged Geisha she paints both her upper and lower lips. There's so much more into understanding the Geisha world and doing plenty of research will help to understand them better. There are youtube videos you can watch about the Geisha as well as documentaries you can find through google.
SunaoTsuji 6 months ago
@SunaoTsuji Maiko who are working less then 1 year only paint their bottom lip, after that they also paint the upper lip ;)
contortionist104 4 months ago
@AideTsukin "Geiko" is Kyoto dialect for "Geisha" and is the more commonly used expression.
bc9874 6 months ago
actually memoirs of a geisha is a very good movie and book, i don't think there are western stereotypes in it. the book writer informed himself very good.
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KjB1ogger 10 months ago
Such a shame that I can't get him to make one for me! My husband calls me his 'blonde geisha' - classy, intelligent, beautiful & feminine. At NO time has the Reference been made at a sexual level.
naiils 10 months ago
@naiils beautiful. :)
mm..any secrets? please share. :D
saphiredewdrop 10 months ago
Wow, such an art.
FatFreeJelloPimp 10 months ago
This tutorial sucked, lol. I only got to see bits and pieces of doing the hair. But thats ok I already seen how they do it all the way through. But still damn them XD
Kkyyrruu 1 year ago
@Kkyyrruu This is not a tutorial.
Ichabod1880 1 year ago
SOOO PRETTY
glossandlove69 1 year ago
I have always enjoyed the history of the Geisha and to able to see how the theater can reproduce such history in a wig is out of this world. Thanks you fro this.
rmdesigner30 1 year ago
@shadeylane
Umm I'm pretty sure memoirs of a geisha never said anything about geisha being prostitutes. How ever it did mention the existence of prostitutes who DRESSED like geisha [emphasis on the words 'dressed like', not WERE], who wore the obis backwards so the knot was at the front. Chapter seven page 94 in the book, if you don't believe me.
So in conclusion people saying memoirs of a geisha called geisha prostitutes are mistaken and have clearly never read the book.
Frosted5stars 1 year ago
This is real art! Amazing! Formerly geisha wigs but did not use styling their hair, they take hours, supporting his neck and slept on small wooden supports. I love the Japanese tradition!
Ps. Excuse my English but I'm Italian and I am in the process of learning English, I hope I have not made too many mistakes :-)
Roberta1979 1 year ago
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Bootlegization 1 year ago 5
This is elegant hair artistry at its best! Much respect!
jewelz2k5 1 year ago 2
It looks like a good thing to have wigs. Only 50 years ago geikos used their actual hair and had to sleep on special pillows so as not to mess their hair. And it caused them to get bald spots after some years.
MessedUpGrasshopper 1 year ago
@MessedUpGrasshopper
Sorry but thats not true at all, Maiko use their own hair for their hairstyles and sleep on special pillows, Maiko are aged 15-20
contortionist104 1 year ago 2
@contortionist104
That is correct, for the most part. The strain of the hair style can cause bald patches that need to be covered up.
However, the wigs made here are for kabuki stage actors, not maiko or geisha. This one is for (as the video says) the character of an Edo period female. It is intended for an actor, but preserves the hairstyles of the later Edo period.
SpriteBrightKHG 1 year ago
@contortionist104 I know they do and i know what maikos are. I was just saying it seems to be a modern thing to use wigs sometimes. Maybe they are more for tourists to dress up in. But geishas often do lose some of their hair eventually.
MessedUpGrasshopper 1 year ago
@MessedUpGrasshopper Geisha do always use wigs, its only maikos who use theyre own hair..
SauryGirl1 11 months ago
@SauryGirl1 um ... you have that kinda mixed up. i have what i jokingly refer to as the big book of geisha and it says the older you get the less often you need to wear a wig for every day appointments. plus the meiko have more complicated, and therefore more expensive, hairdos and it would be way to expensive to wear it as normal hair.
mangakoibito 9 months ago
@mangakoibito You are right, what I ment is that maiko use theyre own hair, only geisha/ geiko wear wig and until theyre around 30 they wear a wig, but after theyre not expected too do so, likewise witht he ehavy make up. but may use it for very special occasion. Geisha/geiko do not go too hairdresser too have theyre hair in theyre simple hairstyle after the age off 30, they can easy make it on theyre own.
SauryGirl1 9 months ago
@mangakoibito Maiko dont pay for theyre visits toot he hairdresser the okiya does. and the maikos dont have more complicated hairstyle then geiko/geisha, iff you should doo what maiko do as a geikoa nd use you own hair it would be more complicated (if its the hairstyle off shimada wich worn before age 30)
The reason geisha started too wear wig its because that a wig was less expensive, and they got bold spots on theyre head from the maiko period.
SauryGirl1 9 months ago
@mangakoibito It's funny that you tell someone they have something mixed up and you have this " big book of Geisha" and yet you say meiko instead of maiko. Um...just sayin'.
Pixiestyc 5 months ago
I wonder if it's real hair in the wigs... If so, the people who had it were dumb to have cut it off, it's so beautiful!
bajubner 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl
are you from the us? because seriously, the way YOU'RE behaving, is like that type of 'stereotype american'..
but whatever, everyone can voice their opinions..
cutedogrl 1 year ago
Why oh why have these been lost to the modern day world? They're like shining ebony sculptures bursting with swirls and beads and wisterias!
bloodprincess800 1 year ago
@bloodprincess800 I think you mean ivory
flippincam 1 year ago
@flippincam Err, no. I believe Japanese women naturally have black hair, not white. Unless, you know, we're in the Twilight Zone, again.
bloodprincess800 1 year ago
@flippincam lol my bad. I thought you were talking about the women and not the hair :P
flippincam 1 year ago
id love to have my hair like that but its not long enough :( xx
DevonWalters1 1 year ago
That looks really nice.
NestleLikesYou 1 year ago
oh how I love ignorant Americans...not
WillyyyV 1 year ago
@WillyyyV Like you are any better
chrmedbabygirl 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl, better then what? I don't understand what you are trying to say.
WillyyyV 1 year ago
@WillyyyV You stated and I quote "oh how I love ignorant Americans...not".. my comments was are you any better then the Americans you think are so ignorant?
chrmedbabygirl 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl, well for one, I never make a comment about a group of people that I have never met myself. I have traveled the world, and have seen many faces but I never make a comment about a kind of people that I have never met before [in this case, geisha which I did meet when I visited Kyoto from Tokyo back in 2006]
WillyyyV 1 year ago
@WillyyyV Then why the rude comment about Americans? Must have been talking to the wrong people.
chrmedbabygirl 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl Well for one WillyyyV posted a sarcastic comment on the ignorent americans who sterotype everything and don't care to find out the truth behind things because they're lazy...........
KaiPendragon 1 year ago
@KaiPendragon How may Americans have you meet? Are you from the United States? If not then go back behind the rock you came from. And how would you know these things have you ever been here. Like other countries don't stereotype. What do you think you are doing with your comments.
chrmedbabygirl 1 year ago
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KaiPendragon 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl I am from the us and I am surrounded by people who can't find their own state on a map muchless pay attention to the details of a forein culture. And if you also notice, we Americans slaughter languages not our own sterotype everything. I am just pointing the truth out like WillyyyV............
KaiPendragon 1 year ago
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KaiPendragon 1 year ago
@KaiPendragon You would get that no matter where you go in this world. And it must be nice to be so uppity that maybe you could take the time to help them learn instead of stereotyping them like you say everyone else is doing. So get of your almighty high horse and do something to change it instead of bad mouthing the country that has treated you and yours so well and gave you all the freedoms that you have now.
chrmedbabygirl 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl I already do, but some people don't give a royal crap to what other cultures have to offer. And I know that other countries do but I live in America so thats the sterotype I live with.......and what makes you the one to critisize others oppinoins so easily? If america has the freedoms you say it does then why complain at me voicing my oppinoin???
KaiPendragon 1 year ago
@KaiPendragon You are the one who was judging me for my opinion not the other way around. And if you dont like the stereotypes that move somewhere else. Because no matter where you live you are going to find things you dont like about the area and culture. So my voicing my opinion was wrong in your opinion and apparently only you and willy are aloud to say or post their views according to you. Very nice.
chrmedbabygirl 1 year ago
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hookers with wigs, the geishas
scully2222 1 year ago
@scully2222, strange, last time I checked...hookers have sex for money. Am I right? Guess what, 99.999999% of geisha are virgins. See this problem. Yes, you are a fool. Probably an american fool who has not even been to Japan before.
WillyyyV 1 year ago
Very Good Work
helivestubes 1 year ago
I admire the work of the Geisha or Geiko. And the hairstylists that do the work.
LisaMarie216 1 year ago
He is a master!
ultimatefetish 1 year ago
This man has very incredible skills !
chiotteux 1 year ago
i want to have one of these!
19mars82 1 year ago
This must be terribly heavy!
Calucifer13 1 year ago
geisha hairstyles will make ur hairline to go back and end up losing hair
CaligirlSofia 1 year ago
wow, it is an intricate process! I like it!
samsaras 2 years ago 9
i want that wig to become a girl
please make me a girl........
MrHairloverboy 2 years ago 2
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I think u may be right on that i watched movie call some thing gaisha it is a bout a japanese girl that has blue eyes.
Know tha I thinks about it i think they sell their body to the highest bidder but dont give up their verginity
Bluemushrooms13 2 years ago
Geisha were not prostitutes. Memoirs of a geisha did NOT have the proper info.
"Geisha girls" were Japanese women who worked as prostitutes during the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan. They almost exclusively serviced American GIs stationed in the country, who wrongly referred to them as "Geesha girls." Adding to the confusion these women dressed in kimono & imitated geishas. Americans unfamiliar w/ the Japanese culture couldn't tell the difference.
Real Geisha are respected women.
shadeylane 2 years ago 32
As to the reference to Memoirs of a Geisha. They did have to proper info. They did their research before filming the movie and the actoresses had to learn how to be Geisha. If you watch the 2nd dvd disc they explain it. And in the movie they even make reference to how geisha are seperate from prostitiutes. And the selling of the virginity is no longer practiced.
chrmedbabygirl 2 years ago
@chrmedbabygirl
No they did not. And even if they did to some degree, they still should have told the difference between Chiyo-- sorry, Sayuri's geisha type and the REAL Geishas. You see, there is a difference. For a true Geisha, the Mizuage is the cellebration of her getting her period. For Sayuri, she was the kind, a lower kind, that sold there virginity. I am sorry, but it is simply NOT the same. Plus, that book WAS terribly cruel and emphasized things in the wronge way.
DenkouSoshiatae 1 year ago
@chrmedbabygirl, but if you watch the video of the women he interviewed, you will discover the truth. Her life has been ruined because of this man who lied about her past and not only added in false dirty details to make it more 'Hollywood' but also included her name, against her wishes. She even had to publish her OWN BOOK to tell the truth of the matter. Geisha were never prostitute. It amazes me how people will believe everything they see in movies. Wow, you should be proud of yourself. Not.
WillyyyV 1 year ago
True they were not considerd protatutes but they were in a way its hard to explain gomen na sai
Bluemushrooms13 2 years ago
Studying the history, it seems some prostitutes pretended to be geisha, and yes, some geisha took sponsers or sold their virginity. But this does not make geisha prostitutes, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong. ^_^
DeadlyChinchilla 2 years ago
You're correct. Prost. would imitate Geisha and ruined their reputation in Ginza. It's said that women in Ginza were, and still may, be forced into sex around Ginza. It's only in Ginza, not all everywhere back in the Allied Occupation of Japan. Prostitutes became known as Geesha Girls.
shadeylane 2 years ago 3
It's very easy to understand what Geisha do. It's easily compared to how women of Society were expected to behave during the late Victorian era, as proper women with regal social graces. I guess one could say that the Japanese kept the tradition of having respectable women as role models.
And it's "gomenasai" as one word. One of my friends is fluent in Japanese.
shadeylane 2 years ago 5
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There is a must read book for the hairstylist coming out of school called "From the bowl to the chair" a must read for 9.95
Drebe125 2 years ago
its not easy :S
yukiii24 2 years ago 4
is amazing how steam the hair.. like iron ...
paolagzzgzz 2 years ago
Thanks for posting the video!!
Shinkei89 2 years ago
MAN HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE JAPAN?, HOME OF THE OLDEST MONARCHY, GEISHA, THE SAMURAI AND FEUDAL PERIODS, SUSHI, KABUKI, SONY, ONE OF THE OLDESR CULTURES KNOWN =THE JOMON= AWG I COULD GO ON AND ON....and im stuck in texas, a world away:/
Ubendorf 2 years ago 2
Wow, me too! I think it would be so cool to be able to visit Japan
tsuchidoll 2 years ago 2
there is so much work, perfection and love in it!!! wow i love to see such as beautiful and traditional work =)
LenaKemp 2 years ago
Geisha or Geiko is Adult artist, Maiko is young artist. Geisha are not prostitutes, there is a form of them who dont dress up with make up that were sold to the pleasure district back in the day in 1940's
shadowkat1011123 2 years ago 6
Geisha are the higher class counterparts of prostitutes. They CAN sell themselves to men if they want, but it will damage their reputation. And the ones who weren't beautiful enough to be a geisha were sent to pleasure districts.
gigirox18 2 years ago
Geisha (芸者) or Geiko (芸妓) are traditional, female Japanese entertainers, whose skills include performing various Japanese arts, such as classical music and dance. Contrary to popular belief, geishas are not prostitutes.
dollfinluvr81 2 years ago 208
Everything I read about geishas in Memoirs of a Geisha was untrue? It was THAT off base? :(
gigirox18 2 years ago
Not everything. But, the mizuage? Doesn't happen anymore. :-)
MariMarice 2 years ago
Mizuage?
gigirox18 2 years ago
I thought you said you read Memoirs of a Geisha...?
MariMarice 2 years ago
I did... Oh, OH! Sorry, I really didn't remember... I've got it now. That is certainly a good thing.
gigirox18 2 years ago
Of course not! I don't see why anyone would think or believe that Geisha was synonomous with "prostitute".
In Japanese culture, Geisha were always regarded as upscale, classy and respectable women. ;-)
SexyProfess 2 years ago 6
It was because of Ginza during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Prostitutes would mimic Geisha. They became known as Geesha Girls by westerners coming there and not knowing the difference.
shadeylane 2 years ago
It's a bit more complex than that, and depends a lot on the city, the district, the time period you're considering.
But yes, they were not prostitutes, and certainly are not nowadays.
alestane 2 years ago
@dollfinluvr81 : yeah.. i believe they're not prostitutes.. others call them that.. they were an entertainer..but in art.. they entertain them by dancing and not by body..
msyurikayuri 1 year ago
The Word "Geisha" and the word "Geiko" are not the same.
Maiko and Geiko are the 2 types of Geisha.
AideTsukino 1 year ago
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@dollfinluvr81 I so agree with U they have no choice, its the of the geisha
Orchidbeautyful 1 year ago
@dollfinluvr81 geiko? MEIKO!
bubzNC15 7 months ago
@bubzNC15 Geiko is the same thing as Geisha, and its not Meiko, its Maiko. Just so you know ^_^"
insertepicusernamehe 6 months ago
@dollfinluvr81 ofcourse they are not prostitutes
mariomoran33 7 months ago
Owtch, three thumbs down.
gigirox18 2 years ago
AWESOME Video, thanks for sharing.
thescissorboy 3 years ago 3
i really admire the rich tradtions of japanese hair styling and make-up. their cultural history is so refined.
i also appreciate people who answer questions on geisha with actual knowledge on the topic instead of just seeing memoirs of a geisha or believing the usual western stereotype.
xd
bc9874 3 years ago 107
Memoirs of a geisha was not accurate on their life style. a geisha did not have to sell her virginity to become a geisha, they had to take a test in dance schools to become a maiko, if you failed you were to become a sing and shamisan player, in some areas a girl at a youg age was saught out to be come a atotori or successor for an okia which is an adopted girl, or in another case the propetiress that has a daughter takes over the okiya.
shadowkat1011123 2 years ago 3
Maybe you should read the book first. I know you didn't because it said most of that stuff in the book. Of course the movie was not accurate, it wasn't meant to be a documentary!
renjazeezy 2 years ago
read both books dear :) there are 2 books on this.
shadowkat1011123 2 years ago
Actually, it depends on the time period and the district. The mizuage custom did exist in the way Golden describes it. Or at least that's what I read in biographies of two different geisha.
It doesn't anymore, that's for sure. And even when and where it did exist, there were still big differences between real prostitutes and geisha.
Life is not black and white...
alestane 2 years ago 2
I read the Memoirs of a Geisha...? :D It's more detailed than the movie, but you're right, it's not the most accurate.
gigirox18 2 years ago
@bc9874 lol i didnt belive all of the things in memoirs of a geisha. lol though i must admit.. i go o sleep to this movie almost every night. so dramatic.
VKQueenVamp 1 year ago
@bc9874 thank you. i loved the book, but the film was a travesty of inaccuracy. They didnt think western audience would like the real makeup and hair so they did that hi fashion stylized CRAP! It is an insult to all who have devoted thier time to the study of tradiitional japanese hairstyles.Im not the expert this man is,but i am often called upon to design geisha or samurai styled wigs,and i have made an extensive study of traditional technique/look, adapting it to western style lace wigs.
WigManPhil 1 year ago
@bc9874
Orchidbeautyful 1 year ago
It's relaxing to watch him work.
zenguy22 3 years ago 5
quel travail de patience!
dammarchal 3 years ago
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geez. why dont you give that hair out to Cancer?
mascaree 3 years ago
stop hating-why don't you give up all your hair?
herelies 3 years ago 3
Hair isn't worth hardly anything. Contrary to popular belief (surprisingly,) there's no shortage of hair in the world.
apapat 3 years ago
he's good;
beatyiful 3 years ago 2
man thats alot of hair o_O I have thin naturally curly hair =( sometimes i wish it was straight lol :P
Shewolf97x 3 years ago
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The original Geisha Girl was "China Baby Doll", our former Queen, The Goddess Isis, aka The Madonna, when she incarnated in China. She of course, did it best! Our former good Queen has stepped down so that a new Queen and King can reign over the Earth. She is returning home restored and independent. With her, she takes the "Geisha Girl". The fashion ideas unique to the goddess will become unperceivable within 2 centuries.
MightyQueen2500 3 years ago
Geisha Girl is not an equivalent to Geisha.
Geisha Girls are more like prostitutes targetting US GIs by dressing up as Geisha during WWII.
XoaiNgot 3 years ago 11
*points to XoaiNgot*
Listen up kids, this guy knows what he's talking about! Nice to see someone who isn't completely ignorant. Thank you.
bloodymissb 3 years ago
This guy's right. (Thank you Wiki? :P)
AngelsBrokenWings 3 years ago
Maybe, that and other several sources, I think one was immortal geisha (google it)
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PrincessxLoreen 3 years ago
I liked it back in the old fashion way how the women didnt have to wear wigs!
cocomango5189 3 years ago 5
The interpretation wasn't exactly 100% on. Hahaha. I think they should have just left it in Japanese and put subtitles on the bottom in English, so everyone else who can understand Japanese can listen to the man speak without being interrupted by that woman.
jinlovesya 3 years ago
Can somebody tell me where to find a comb such as the one he is using?
fluffycat1974 3 years ago
I believe this man does the katsura for the geisha in Shimbashi and Asakusa around the Ginza area.
osbourn15 3 years ago
me fascinan las geishas, las pintos a mi manera besos desde españa
CATHYBAYLE 3 years ago
thats human hair.
Lillium90 3 years ago
Wow that's amazing.
Risha2511 3 years ago 3
It's either real hair or horse hair...idk
Matyme 3 years ago
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i think horse because the women said edo hair edo=horse?
roxasgirl1992 3 years ago
edo stands for the period of time that itr was very popular.
shishie4811 3 years ago 7
edo don't mean horse lol
FuturisticXXL 3 years ago
is that real hair?
trinalyn 3 years ago
love asian hairs, love the texture their silkyness etc. so furtunate 2 have two asian niece's mix with rican came out with their hair i get to style it everytime and this is what i will try jajajaja..awesome dude!! need ur talent... very favi :)
faviolusrican 3 years ago 2
i can make my hairstyle like thaaaaat =}=}=}
ummmmm, i like their traditions
they are so fabulous>
Najdawyeah 3 years ago
it cool how he can do all of that
o0eternalxsnow0o 3 years ago
Oh my God this is really an impressive result and a fine art! Wonderful. But what happens to their hair after a few years? Isn't this rough for the hair?
Siriusastir 3 years ago
They get a bald spot from all the pulling. :3
DoomInAJar 3 years ago 2
I imagine they do, but I'm sure they will have a way to cover these spots nicely. After all they have long, beautiful, black hair. It won't be difficult.
Siriusastir 3 years ago
thats why they started wearing wigs instead of doing that to their actual hair; though some gishas still do
ajkl27 3 years ago 3
aaah, not exactly right: Maiko "wear" their own hair, Geiko (or more common Geisha) wear wigs. ^^
StillNoUseForAName 3 years ago
wel,, the guy is using a wig. plus, i think i heard "staple" so i don't think that this would be the real geisha's hair. ^-^; just saying...
~this was not meant to be offensive~
~Mickey
sakurachan13 3 years ago
they make wigs now instead... actual geisha hair makes you go bald in certain areas... so most of the complex styles are wigs... also used in theater...
dabatjelly 3 years ago 2
i wish someone could do my hair like this!
kmah88 3 years ago
you'd b bald in a week! seriousy!
SxyPinay08 3 years ago
True art!! There aren't too many people practicing this type of work anymore.
baddamom 3 years ago 2
This is true art!!
latexpiepbeestje 4 years ago 2
Wow!
shortpotato26 4 years ago 2
It's beautiful! 0.0
LADYESCHER 4 years ago
wow that's cool! I almost fell asleep though, the lady's voice makes me sleepy... :)
insertlovehere 4 years ago
Jeeze all the knots and such and women use to do this to their own hair!
Opheliac666 4 years ago
yeah and there hair was only washed once a week or two weeks so they didn't have to keep having it done. OUCH. And the older Geisha women have bald patches from all the pulling over the years:(
Support4MySingers 4 years ago
As hair dresser, when you have textured and thick hair like many non-caucasian ethnicities do... It's best to not wash the hair for health and ability to style for up to three weeks. Even some caucasian beauty pageant girls do this. It's more healthy when you have coarse and textured hair, but not so for people with fine thin hair. It's because most modern shampoo contains chemicals that deprive the hair of naturally nourishing oils that make hair healthy and easy to style. Just FYI ;-)
PrincessaGianna 4 years ago
wow.
dude.
im asian, should i use conditioner?
lee010194 4 years ago
Yes you should use conditioner. Asian hair is thick and textured, but it's not like other non-caucasian hair types, in that it's not hard to style when you first wash it because usually it does not curl. I would say was it with a mild shampoo (From an organic health store) free of the chemicals sodium laureth sulfate, sodium lauryl sulfate, amonium laurly sulfate, and amonianum laureth sulfate. These chemicals are very harsh. Wash once to twice a week and condition.
PrincessaGianna 3 years ago
Yes.. >.> I'm very jealous of the asian hair... :( So pretty and silky and always seems so free. *pout*
Mackatrin 3 years ago
you should just be happy with the hair that you have. i'm sure asian girls wished they had a different kind of hair as well.
heavenlyeve 3 years ago 17
This is false. Many non-Asians have hair like you described and many Asians do not. I'm not Asian and my hair absolutely does not curl or wave, ever. My Asian friends are pissed that I don't use a straightener like they have to. So it varies quite a bit.
cheeseballet 3 years ago
I never meant to say all Asians have the same hair type. There's a lot of different variety of ethnic groups that are called Asian. It would like me saying that all Caucasian hair is fine, thin and straight... While many fully Caucasian people have hair that is fine, thin and straight, there are certainly some who don't.
PrincessaGianna 3 years ago 2
I'm a good example of a Caucasian that does not. My hair is thick and curly.
=]
depressedone15 3 years ago
PrincessGiana would you please give me some advice on hair.
I have curly/very wavy non-caucasian hair. In order to keep it from not frizzing up i have to use stuff like moose or creme gel.When i go to sleep it gets all tangled, which forces me to wash it again so i can style it.
Do you have any advice on keeping hair healthy? products you can recommend?I never straighten it, i wash it almost daily,stated above, and my hair is at least a foot and a half long.
advice would be greatly appreciated.
lilymina9 3 years ago
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I'm sorry, but geisha wigs always look so fake. They're so low on the forehead they look weird. Couldn't they come up with more believable looking wigs?
EscapeSociety 4 years ago
I agree that it looks awkward, probably because they need to recreate a hairline. Nonetheless, the wigs are very beautiful (:
asininityy 4 years ago
One, this is a Kabuki wig, two, it probably has a purpose. Three, geisha don't wear wigs, they use their own hair.
the28infected 4 years ago
Actually Geisha do wear wigs, Maiko(apprentice Geiko) do not. They use their real hair. Sometimes the Geiko (geisha) will have their real hair done but this is very rare, and is usually for Ceremony.
osbourn15 4 years ago 5
Someone actualy knows their stuff instead of having just watched memoirs of a Geisha and thinking they know it all.....lol. You're absolutley right of course.
Pashnjari 4 years ago 6
I agree with you too. it's hard to find any information on this elusive culture, but the worst thing to do is take any ignorant piece of information that seems to be connected and think you know what you're doing. I've been doing my best to learn about the rites and customs, and especially the dress for geisha and maiko, and what I knew a year ago makes me cringe in horror considering what I know now. I was an idiot then and I'm still learning.
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fionaroxursox 4 years ago
The first time I watched this I got chills; this lady's voice is really soothing. xD
This is really cool. :]
DeathandtheMaiden 4 years ago 10
i luv it when that happens:)
iamagymnast 4 years ago 5
really interesting ^^
tsukirose 4 years ago 7
The woman speaks cute japanese o^∀^o
304totchi 4 years ago 9
um, that's english...
kittyjones93 4 years ago
oh yeah I didn't really listen but I thought it was japanese cuz it was cute x)
304totchi 3 years ago
I know, my boyfriends mother sounds the same way, its so adorable ^.^
the28infected 4 years ago
Wow.
LydiaxLOSERFACE 4 years ago 6
what an interesting job!
fruitsbasketRULES 4 years ago 6