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.

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 ...

The world of the geisha, a culture that to many modern Japanese seems like an antiquated institution, has been buffeted by declining numbers and economic hard times.

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 ...

Welcome to the traditional and mostly hidden world of the geiko.Westerners are more familiar with the term geisha, but those here, believe that term derogatory and stress that today, unlike before ...

As an outsider at a teahouse in Kyoto, Lesley Downer is put at her ease when the girls dress her in their traditional costume. Transformed, she finds herself enjoying her new role as a Japanese ...

Lesley Downer is the author of many books on Japan, including Geisha: The Secret History Of A Vanishing World, Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced The West and The Last Concubine. ...

NIGHT after night from the little upstairs room in the old geisha house in Kyoto where I was staying, I would hear clogs and the tinkle of bells. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.