Today I will write an article on “geisha”. And then I will introduce a modern Japan’s comedy movie featuring geisha in the following entry. (I assumed that to make explanation on a culture improved my English skill.)
The most direct translation of geisha into English would be a performing artist. My English dictionary has the word as a loanword. I presume most of the native speakers of English already have incorporated it into his or her own vocabularies. Let’s imagine how they look…You might mistake and be visualizing a young girl with her white make-up and elaborate kimono and hairstyle. It is actually “maiko” that has become the stereotype of geisha to westerners and even the Japanese, rather than true geisha. Maiko apprentices to the geisha society. It requires years of training to be real geisha and education used to start from the age of five. They have to learn to play the traditional musical instruments, master traditional dance and arrangement of flowers (ikebana), know tea manner, and recite classical poems. I suppose that they belong to the valuable minority who can embody the declining traditional Japanese culture. Thus, they are usually extremely educated women. They entertain hosts the way of serving witty conversation and brilliant performance, and sometimes flatter on them. […]
Nov 28th 2008 06:48
Then I will introduce a modern Japan’s comedy movie featuring geisha in the following entry.
(I assumed that making an explanation on a culture will improve my English skill.)
Let’s imagine how they look…You might be mistaken and be visualizing a young girl with her white make-up and elaborate kimono and hairstyle.
Maiko are apprentices to the geisha society.
It requires years of training to be a real geisha and education used to start from the age of five.
They entertain hosts by serving witty conversation, brilliant performance, and sometimes flatter them.
And then I will introduce a modern Japan’sJapanese comedy movie featuring geisha in the following entry.
(I assumed that explaining to make explanation on a culture would improved my English skills.)
I presume most of the native speakers of English already have incorporated it into his or her their own vocabularies.
It is actually a “maiko” that has become the stereotype of geisha to westerners and even the Japanese, rather than the true geisha.
It requires years of training to be a real geisha and the education used to start from the age of five.
They have to learn to play the (the readers don't know what instruments you are talking about) traditional musical instruments, master traditional dance and arrangement of flowers (ikebana), know how to make the green tea manner properly, and recite classical poems.
Thus, they are usually extremely well educated women.
They entertain hosts by the way of serving witty conversation and brilliant performance, and sometimes by flattering on them.
BTW I think that the 'Memoires of the geisha' did a really bad service to the geisha and maiko community, now people who knew nothing about them think they are all prostitutes and when you say that's not true they refer to the film for arguments! How deplorable.