The History & Art of Geisha - The Geisha Appearance

A geisha's appearance changes throughout her career, from the girlish, heavily made up maiko, to the more sombre appearance of an older established geisha.

Geisha always wear kimono. Apprentice geisha wear highly colorful kimono with extravagant obi. Always, the obi is brighter than the kimono she is wearing to give a certain exotic balance. Maiko wear the obi tied in a style called "darari" (dangling obi). Older geisha wear more subdued patterns and styles (most notably the obi tied in a simpler knot utilized by married women known as the 'taiko musubi' or "drum knot"). The sign of a prosperous okiya is having geisha not wearing a kimono more than once, meaning that those okiyas with higher economic status will have "storehouses" of sorts where kimono are stored and interchanged between geisha.

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[Pizzuzza]

No. The most girls that we can see in this video are not geisha.

[SoapySuds63]

this seems unreliable. sorry, but its not detailed enough.

[namiexamuroxnobody]

It seems like the rules are a burden when I listen to this; the women really didn't have a problem with them. The three 'maiko' were Japanese people dressing up like them and are fake.

[thecharlotteness]

Er.. lots of mistakes in that. The first picture of "Geisha" are really just Henshin Maiko - people that dress up as Maiko [Apprentice geiko] and walk around the place just as an experience. Please try to get more detailed info next time..

[MariMarice]

I'm not buying it.