KYOTO -- Here in the Gion geisha district of Japan's ancient capital, even one bad hair day can cost a girl her career. So it is no wonder that Tetsuo Ishihara is the man with the most popular ...

Here in the Gion geisha district of Japan’s ancient capital, even one bad hair day can cost a girl her career. So it’s no wonder that Tetsuo Ishihara is the man with the most popular hands in ...

IN the film “Memoirs of a Geisha,” a jealous Hatsumomo (Gong Li) rips down a trio of posters depicting her upstart rival Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang). Those posters, which advertise Sayuri as the lead ...

Detail of a Katsura, a geisha wig. Before WWII, geishas styled with their own hair, but the Katsura enabled them to maintain a polished traditional hairstyle without weekly restyling by an artisan.

Finally, geisha wigs (katsura) have become a collectible category all to themselves. Authentic ones are made from real human hair and done up in intricate multi-bun patterns.

It is not polite to ask a geisha's age, but some taking part in the show have been performing for five or six decades. Koiku said she is worried that if nothing changes, it will be "too late" for ...

Geisha have been the subject of Westerners' fascination and fertile imaginings for well over a century, but Lesley Downer's "Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha" is ...

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Feb. 15, 1965, was the first day of Mineko Iwasaki’s life as a geisha. Wrapped in a turquoise-and-orange satin kimono, hair piled atop her head and secured with red silk bands, face covered in a ...

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