Hirokazu Kore-eda infuses the world of the Japanese geisha with his signature gentle humanism in The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, his first drama series for Netflix.

The original Japanese geishas were male, and today their influence is apparent in the burgeoning popularity of male ‘hosts’ in bars and clubs. Just don’t mention sex.

SALEM, Mass. — Curators at the Peabody Essex Museum hope art and artifacts from the world of geisha will refute misconceptions of them as wanton women and reveal their importance to the culture ...

After World War II, Japan underwent further cultural and economic shifts that changed public perception of the geisha ...

Westerners are more familiar with the term geisha, but those here believe that term derogatory and stress that today, unlike before World War II, there is no prostitution involved nor children.

There isn't the faintest suggestion of free will, but then free will has never played much of a role in the world of a geisha. That's made clear at the outset, circa 1929, ...

Unfortunately for Sayuki, who claims she is Japan's first-ever foreign geisha, contemporary Western perceptions of the so-called flower and willow world have been deeply shaped by Arthur Golden's ...

Japanese Geisha, Umechika, 20, and Umeha, 25, touch up their makeup in the back seat of a van during a day of tourism after helping with the Geisha exhibit at the Asian Art Museum. 6/23/04 in San ...

This is the labor-intensive, heavily pedigreed, exotica-spiked world of artisanal beauty. The artisan movement long ago blew through the world of food on a wind of old-timey brand names and wordy ...