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---[ Can You See Pass My Painted Eyes ? ]
❖ℒisten ℑo ℳe❖
After reading Memoirs of a Geisha, I find myself so obsessed with Japanese culture and Geisha now.
It's amazing the difference there is between what they found attractive and alluring there than they do in England or the US.
For one thing, as you know Geisha have white paint over their face, which travels over their necks to the pit of their shoulder blades where their spine starts, and they create a kind of painted arch with it. In the book it said it was so men would pay more attention to the skin underneath.
What pisses me off though about this is that so many people think geisha are prostitutes. You couldn't be more wrong. They are female entertainers. They entertain with a variety of skills which include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance.
Legitimate geisha do not engage in paid sex with clients. Their purpose is to entertain their customer, be it by dancing, reciting verse, playing musical instruments, or engaging in light conversation. Geisha engagements may include flirting with men and playful innuendos; however, clients know that nothing more can be expected. In a social style that is common in Japan, men are amused by the illusion of that which is never to be. They enjoy to be teased.
Geisha have been confused with the Edo period's high-class courtesans known as oiran, from whom they evolved. Like geisha, oiran wore elaborate hairstyles and white makeup, but their obi, basically the sash that is tied around them to keep their kimono together, are tied at the front.
So it is frowned upon for geisha to have sex or to have any boyfriends. However, it is traditional for established geisha to take a danna, or patron. A danna was typically a wealthy man, sometimes married, who could support the very large expenses related to a geisha's traditional training and other costs. They would also gift their Geisha with Kimono's and jewelery. They wouldn't necessarily be in love, but they would in bark on an intimate relationship as a reward for the expenses. You could say that they're mistresses at that point.
I don't think people realize just how delicate it is to be a Geisha. Not only physically, with the ridiculously heavy kimono's and the extremely painful process of have their hair done and walking in awkward shoes, but emotionally, with the never ending competition amongst other girls and the strange relationship they form amongst men.
Though, it still seems like a incredibly glamorous life. for they are after all, a walking piece of art.
After reading Memoirs of a Geisha, I find myself so obsessed with Japanese culture and Geisha now.
It's amazing the difference there is between what they found attractive and alluring there than they do in England or the US.
For one thing, as you know Geisha have white paint over their face, which travels over their necks to the pit of their shoulder blades where their spine starts, and they create a kind of painted arch with it. In the book it said it was so men would pay more attention to the skin underneath.
What pisses me off though about this is that so many people think geisha are prostitutes. You couldn't be more wrong. They are female entertainers. They entertain with a variety of skills which include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance.
Legitimate geisha do not engage in paid sex with clients. Their purpose is to entertain their customer, be it by dancing, reciting verse, playing musical instruments, or engaging in light conversation. Geisha engagements may include flirting with men and playful innuendos; however, clients know that nothing more can be expected. In a social style that is common in Japan, men are amused by the illusion of that which is never to be. They enjoy to be teased.
Geisha have been confused with the Edo period's high-class courtesans known as oiran, from whom they evolved. Like geisha, oiran wore elaborate hairstyles and white makeup, but their obi, basically the sash that is tied around them to keep their kimono together, are tied at the front.
So it is frowned upon for geisha to have sex or to have any boyfriends. However, it is traditional for established geisha to take a danna, or patron. A danna was typically a wealthy man, sometimes married, who could support the very large expenses related to a geisha's traditional training and other costs. They would also gift their Geisha with Kimono's and jewelery. They wouldn't necessarily be in love, but they would in bark on an intimate relationship as a reward for the expenses. You could say that they're mistresses at that point.
I don't think people realize just how delicate it is to be a Geisha. Not only physically, with the ridiculously heavy kimono's and the extremely painful process of have their hair done and walking in awkward shoes, but emotionally, with the never ending competition amongst other girls and the strange relationship they form amongst men.
Though, it still seems like a incredibly glamorous life. for they are after all, a walking piece of art.
[And See The Soul That I Have Inside ?]---
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