Geisha Dance

Geisha Dance at a festival in Kyoto in early February

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• geisha
• dance
• kyoto
• japan

[xcuppiixcakex]

actually, the mizuage ceremony had nothing to do with sex. arthur golden (who obviously wasnt a geisha) confused geisha with prostitutes.

[FCMpigen]

Geisha dans= The most beutiful dance in the world!

[tumblefan101]

only senior maiko are dancing you can tell because 2 of them are wearing the sakkou hair style which is worn in the last 4-2 weeks of a girls time as a maiko before she becomes a fully fledged geiko but all the other girls are wearing the katsuyama hairstyle which only the last year maiko wear but other wise a beautiful dance

[Umekodancing]

by the way.......to the person who posted this video.....Ookini san dosou!

[Umekodancing]

Not commenting on the video itself..but the comments here......people need to grow up, seriously...the whole I'm right....you're wrong...and here's why...is High school baby foot stomping. Can't you just enjoy the video? Comment on their skill or lack there of...your opinions are still important......but this..my knowledge is greater then yours.......actually speaks against you......not for you.

[xXxPiousNinjaxXx]

@NeverMoreGrrrrl True.

But a lot of Asian cultures require the husbands to buy off the wives. (Brother's dating a Hmong girl, she said a good Hmong wife cost around $7,000...that's a lot!)

[NeverMoreGrrrrl]

Geisha weren't prostitutes. The reason people confuse that is because if someone wanted to marry a geisha they would have to pay. so they were "bought" if they were to be married. but never for sex.

[marley1993]

these are senior ranking maiko, yes geisha wear white collars but as a maiko progresses in her training her collar gets whiter, you can tell they are not full fledged geisha yet because 1) the kanzashi is too elaborate 2) they wear furisode style suzohiki 3) they are wearing the darari obi. also people please stop taking your 'facts' from memoirs of a geisha, what arthur golden wrote was FICTION based LOOSELY on mineko iwasaki's life. please dont confuse fact and fiction!!!!

[MsNzChick]

beautiful dance ok so these ladies are geishas because their collar is white maiko wears not white collars also they are not sex services so please dont confuse them with oiran,they have long obis because it is formal

[midnightshinigami]

They're Sr. Maiko. Their Kanzashi is a bit more than a geisha, and their obi's are still long.

[DarkOnyx98]

don't really think he confused them with prositutes casue I remember in the movie how they implied that they weren't. But it was also set in times where at the time the ceremony did have something to do with sex. Just now in modern time it doesn't matter anymore.. ((i looked it up.))