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No. A geisha is skilled in non sexual arts. She may (or may not) have a sexual relationship with a client, but this is her own business, and is not part of her entertainment. An Oiran (a Japanese courtesan) is the woman you are thinking of. She was skilled in the sexual arts, and freely sold her services. The Oiran do not exist in modern society.
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The cast of Oiran - 1983 includes: Kyoko Asuka Saeda Kawaguchi Allen Keller as Morgan Shinji Kubo Satoshi Mashiba as Kisuke Akiko Miyahara Tsutomu Sasaku Takako Shinozuka as Ayame Taiji Tonoyama Midori Yuzaki
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Allen Keller has: Played Rosewell in "Convoy" in 1978. Played Morgan in "Oiran" in 1983. Played Nick Roncoe in "Hunter" in 1984. Played Tyson in "Pale Rider" in 1985. Played John Kinney in "Young Guns" in 1988. Performed in "Deadwood" in 2004.
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According to Google research, the Geisha is a symbol of "traditional values" in Japanese culture. Gieshas are not seen as women of ill repute as often thought. (Geisha have been confused with the high-class courtesan of the Edo Period known as oiran, from whom they evolved.)
The closest English translation of the proper noun "geisha" would be artist/performing artist.
They are artisans that train for long periods of time (taking many years of work before becoming a full-fledged geisha), therefor they could, in some sense, symbolize perseverance.
There also seems to be a lot of secrecy represented in their lifestyle.
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The cast of Nihon kyokaku-den - 1964 includes: Bin Amatsu as Okiyama Gozo Koji Arima as Ogasawara Sumiko Fuji as Ofumi Murasaki Fujima as Oyanagi Hirotaro Hori as Takemi Yusaburo Ii as Kibamatsu Kenji Kusumoto as Machida Hiroki Matsukata as Gun Tiger Yoshiko Mita as Osaki Hiroyuki Nagato Kinnosuke Nakamura as Seiji Yuji Nanto as Iseya Pawnbroker Yutaro Nasu as Yutaro Jun Ooi as Oiran Hideo Shimada as Genkichi Ken Takakura as Chokichi Takahiro Tamura as Tsurumatsu Ijishin Tokuda as Haulage Carter Tetsunosuke Tsukigata as Kanejo Asao Uchida as Yokoi
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The very first geishas were men, entertaining customers waiting to see the most popular and gifted courtesans (oiran).[8] The forerunners of the female geisha were the teenage odoriko ("dancing girls"):[9] expensively trained as chaste dancers-for-hire. In the 1680s, they were popular paid entertainers in the private homes of upper-class samurai,[10] though many had turned to prostitution by the early 18th century. Those who were no longer teenagers (and could no longer style themselves odoriko[11]) adopted other names-one being "geisha", after the male entertainers. The first woman known to have called herself geisha was a Fukagawa prostitute, in about 1750.[12] She was a skilled singer and shamisen-player named Kikuya who was an immediate success, making female geisha extremely popular in 1750s Fukagawa.[13] As they became more widespread throughout the 1760s and 1770s, many began working only as entertainers (rather than prostitutes) often in the same establishments as male geisha.
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The cast of Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san - 2005 includes: Sadao Abe as Kin-kin Yoshiyoshi Arakawa as Spirit of the Dead Tasuku Emoto as Non-non Arata Furuta as Shimizu no Jirocho Itsuji Itao as Naniwa Hotto Arata Iura as The Bartender Naoko Ken as Datsueba Eiko Koike as O-Hatsu Kazuma Kuwabata as Naniwa Sando Ayaka Maeda as Komachi Suzuki Matsuo as Bearded Oiran Sarutoki Minagawa as Vendor Aiko Morishita as Landlady Tomoya Nagase as Yajirobei Shichinosuke Nakamura as Kitahachi Katsuhisa Namase as The Newsdealer Hiroaki Ogi as The Tourist Akiko Saito Yumi Shimizu as O-Yuki Kotobuki Shiriagari as Owner of the CD Store Riki Takeuchi as Shonoshin Kimura Susumu Terajima as The Policeman Satoshi Tsumabuki as The Phantom Yaijrobei Kazuo Umezu as The old man drinking tea Asami Usuda Ken Yahagi as The Tourist Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as O-Chin
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Masumi Harukawa has: Played Masa Uchida in "Gurama-to no yuwaku" in 1959. Played Namiko in "Hito mo arukeba" in 1960. Played Lilli in "Kiiroi sakurambo" in 1960. Played Harada in "Onna bakari no yoru" in 1961. Performed in "Atomic no obon, onna oyabuntaiketsu no maki" in 1961. Performed in "Atomic no obon: Surimasuwayo no maki" in 1961. Played Suji in "Sanpo suru reikyusha" in 1964. Played Sadako Takahashi in "Akai satsui" in 1964. Played Osen - A traveling oiran in "Nemuri Kyoshiro 4: Joyoken" in 1964. Performed in "Chinkoro amakko" in 1965. Played Etsuko in "Kuroi neko" in 1965. Performed in "Himo" in 1965. Played Sadako Fujiwara in "Buraikan jingi" in 1965. Performed in "Akai shuriken" in 1965. Performed in "Kaidan semushi otoko" in 1965. Played Naomi in "Otoko nante nanisa" in 1966. Played Hiroko in "Odoshi" in 1966. Performed in "Hatamoto yakuza" in 1966. Played Akemi in "Sodachi zakari" in 1967. Played Oryu in "Zatoichi tekka tabi" in 1967. Performed in "Nikudan" in 1968. Performed in "Kureji Mekishiko dai sakusen" in 1968. Performed in "Neon taiheiki" in 1968. Played Chiyo Kikuchi in "Ah, yokaren" in 1968. Performed in "Sarariiman akuto jutsu" in 1968. Played Madame in "Futari no koibito" in 1969. Played Wakako Hanakawado in "Kureji no buchamukure daihakken" in 1969. Played Mrs. Banno in "Kigeki ekimae sanbashi" in 1969. Performed in "Onsen gerira dai shogeki" in 1970. Performed in "Kazoku" in 1970. Performed in "Daikon no hana" in 1970. Played Mrs. Momose in "Aa koe naki tomo" in 1972. Played Tomiko in "Onna ikitemasu: Sakariba wataridori" in 1972. Performed in "Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro komoriuta" in 1974. Performed in "Urutoraman Reo" in 1974. Performed in "Den-en ni shisu" in 1974. Played Naka Sumie, woman at fan shop in "Suna no utsuwa" in 1974. Played Geisha in "Seishun no mon" in 1975. Performed in "Wagahai wa neko de aru" in 1975. Performed in "Daitokai - tatakai no hibi" in 1976. Performed in "Kinkin no lumpen taisho" in 1976. Performed in "Zoku ningen kakumei" in 1976. Played Saeko in "Aniki" in 1977. Played Shizue Tanaka in "Pinku redi no katsudoshashin" in 1978. Played Yodo-Gimi in "Ninja bugeicho momochi sandayu" in 1980. Played Matsuyo in "Michi" in 1986. Performed in "Makeup" in 1987. Played Katsue Nakazato in "Marilyn ni aitai" in 1988. Performed in "Daireikai: Shindara dou naru" in 1989. Performed in "Oyaji no hige 7" in 1990. Performed in "Oyaji no hige 8" in 1990. Played Woman at the station in "Kojika monogatari" in 1991. Performed in "Haha: Inochi yomigaeru hi" in 1992. Performed in "Bokyo" in 1993. Performed in "Oyaji no hige 19" in 1995.
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Local lords were called daimyo. They retained soldiers called samurai. The top ruling lord in Japan was called the Shogun. The feudal leaders received tribute from the territories they were responsible for.
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Midori Hagio has: Played Fuyuko Yamauchi in "Byoinzaka no kubikukuri no ie" in 1979. Performed in "Kimi wa hadashi no kami wo mitaka" in 1986. Played Yuugao in "Murasaki Shikibu: Genji monogatari" in 1987. Performed in "Hitotsu yane no shita" in 1993. Played Yumiko Hirooka in "Yureru omoi" in 1995. Played Fumie Haga in "Kizuna" in 1998. Performed in "Hoken chousain Kabata Ginko 2: Ai no 7 nen satsujin jiken" in 2001. Played Kaoru Yamada in "Gojira tai Mekagojira" in 2002. Performed in "Tsubasa" in 2003. Performed in "Sakura Sakura" in 2010.
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For men and women hairstyles varied widely depending on age, occupation/rank, fashion, and personal preference. Infinite variations mean that there can be no "accurate" count.
For men, there was the basic chonmage (translates to something like "comma hair"). In the warring states period, what was popular for samurais, was to shave the hair above their ears, and tie the rest into a ponytail. When the states stopped warring, what became popular was to oil up your ponytail and slap it on top of your artificially bald pate! Commoners would poof up the sideburns into a touroubin (lantern hair) while samurais would tie it tight up to their heads. The chon part of the mage could be oiled up and slapped down, or tied up with a lot of little ropes, or made to stand up. Commoners (especially city-dwellers) liked to make their lantern-'burns sag and twist their chon to their right (our left) and it could even be split in half. Boychildren could get all their hair shaved, sometimes leaving little poofs of hair on the forehead, sides of the head, and back of the head. Sometimes their hair was let to grow out, and they got comical tiny ponytails. Aging up, they would grow out their forelock and back-lock and tie them together into a kind of kid-mage. (Samurais would do this too: among other things, it showed they were of the appropriate age to be macked on by other samurais.) Young shop-assistants and apprentices would do this and grow out the sides of the forelock to let it kid of hang down like a 'stache for their forehead. When they went through the rites of passage and became adults they were allowed to shave off their forelock and just have a normal chonmage. Monks shaved their heads bald, and ronins and doctors (actually, ronins were often doctors) liked to grow the bald part back out and slap their chonmage right on top of their hair again! Lady actresses were too sexy, and theater-goers would fight over their romantic/sexy favors, so ladies were banned, and soon after all theater was banned, because the dudes crossdressing as ladies were also too sexy. However dude-only kabuki was soon allowed with the provision they shaved off their forelocks and had a proper chonmage, so actors would wear a little purple hat to hide their bald (not technically a hairstyle, but hair-related and hair-larious).
Girls wouldn't get their heads shaved when they were little (unless their parents were reeeeally eccentric). They'd usually get their hair tied back with a ribbon into a bun, like your grandma, because if they added a lot of elaborate hair pins and stuff those would totally get lost. Average city-dwellers would tie their hair up into a shimada (how to do: 1. tie hair into ponytail, puffing up sideburns into a kind of upside-down bowl shape. 2. Stick comb behind your forelock 'cause it's cool, and so the bun doesn't try to creep up on your eyebrows. 3. Fashion ponytail into bun, hiding loose end of hair inside. 4. If desired, add hairpins and decorations. 5. ??? 6. Profit!!!) Fashionable young ladies could have a geisha-like pointier hairstyle with lost of accessories. If they were sold into prostitution (or committed a crime and were sentenced to serve a sentence in the walled red-light district - yes, this was actually a sentence that could be given) they would do their hair up gigantic with elaborate hair pins and paper flowers (though if they were secret, unlicensed prostitutes like "arrow girls" or "bath-house girls" they wouldn't, to keep the fuzz off their trail, see?) The highest-ranked 'hos were called "oiran" and they would not only tie their belts backwards ('cause it was sexy) and have platform shoes about like a foot high, but they would take their shimada, grow it out like three times the length, and when they made their bun, they would split it in half, and stretch it vertically so it looked like a bow or a butterfly (yoko-hyougo), and their decorations were so elaborate, it is a wonder their necks weren't beefy like Ahnold.
The shimada originated from a place called - shocker - Shimada, and was allegedly created by prostitutes there - the original version is much less simple, and involves greasing your hair, tying it into a loopie, and wrapping it in rope so it like stands up.
In the later Edo period, the mitsumawage became popular - it looks like the shimada picture, but less standing up, and you stick what looks like a decorated Vienna sausage in the loopie. Samurai ladies wore a similar but slightly different version called the osafune, written "long ship". Some hairstyles took the hair from the forelock, brushed it back, and split it in half sideways to kind of wrap around the loopie bun. Lots of hairstyles were variations on the "change the height of the shimada and/or stick something in the loop" and so you may or may not want to count these as separate. For example the popular maru-mage (circle hair) is like a standing shimada expanded sideways to look, no surprise, like a circle. The katsuya-mage, invented by a prostitute called Katsuya, is like the Shimada without the big sideburns, instead having a comically-diametred look.
Then there was the Heian-like hairstyle of letting it all down, with one variation being to make it swoop over the head and then be loose (imagine a docile sting-ray sitting on one's head). A wari was taking the shimada ponytail, then wrapping it around a stick...
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Taiji Tonoyama has: Played Photographer in "Nagaya shinshiroku" in 1947. Played Matsushita in "Idainaru X" in 1948. Played Shop Proprietor in "Yoidore tenshi" in 1948. Played Ton Chiki in "Yume o meshimase" in 1950. Played Priest in "Genji monogatari" in 1951. Played Kasama in "Itsuwareru seiso" in 1951. Played Akabane Construction Manager in "Kyo wa kaisha no getsuyobi" in 1952. Played Owner of a ship in "Genbaku no ko" in 1952. Played Jiro in "Nishijin no shimai" in 1952. Performed in "Boryoku" in 1952. Performed in "Daibutsu kaigen" in 1952. Played Fukuichi in "Taki no Shiraito" in 1952. Played Miyabayashi in "Nadare" in 1952. Played Yamada in "Shukuzu" in 1953. Played Tomekichi in "Onna no issho" in 1953. Played Oxcart Driver in "Yoake mae" in 1953. Played Tokuhei Taneda in "Yokubo" in 1953. Played Kakisuke in "Jigokumon" in 1953. Performed in "Taiyo no nai machi" in 1954. Performed in "Wakai hitotachi" in 1954. Played Po Yuesheng in "Moeru Shanghai" in 1954. Performed in "Mittsu no kao" in 1955. Played Bartender (segment 1) in "Aisureba koso" in 1955. Played Akamatsu in "Zoku keisatsu nikki" in 1955. Performed in "Joyu" in 1956. Played Yogo-san in "Niko-yon monogatari" in 1956. Played Uhei Matsumura in "Mahiru no ankoku" in 1956. Played Doctor Otsuki in "Soratobu enban kyofu no shugeki" in 1956. Performed in "Waga machi" in 1956. Performed in "Nerawareta otoko" in 1956. Played Gensaku in "Gin shinju" in 1956. Played Shokichi in "Shiawase wa doko ni" in 1956. Played Nr. 602 in "Watashi wa zenkamono de aru" in 1957. Performed in "Koroshita no wa dare da" in 1957. Performed in "Shori-sha" in 1957. Played Worker in "Shiawase wa oira no negai" in 1957. Played Masayama in "Yoru no tsuzumi" in 1958. Performed in "Mammoth Tower" in 1958. Played detective Shimamoto in "Fumihazushita haru" in 1958. Played Akamatsu in "Kanashimi wa onna dakeni" in 1958. Played Detective Maruyama in "Hitokui ama" in 1958. Played Kenta in "Kaze to onna to tabigarasu" in 1958. Played Iwatsubo in "Tokyo no kodoku" in 1959. Performed in "Beran me-e geisha" in 1959. Performed in "Ningen no kabe" in 1959. Performed in "Daigo Fukuryu-Maru" in 1959. Performed in "Kiku to Isamu" in 1959. Played Senta, the father in "Hadaka no shima" in 1960. Played Daihachi in "Oden jigoku" in 1960. Played Hemmi Gengoro in "Nianchan" in 1960. Performed in "Yakuza sensei" in 1960. Played Sukezo in "Shinran" in 1960. Played Chen in "Buta to gunkan" in 1961. Performed in "Matsukawa-Jiken" in 1961. Played Hikozo in "Midaregami" in 1961. Played Rokusuke in "Akitsu onsen" in 1962. Played Goro in "Tadare" in 1962. Played Zosui in "Kigeki: Nippon no oba-chan" in 1962. Played Kamegoro in "Ningen" in 1962. Performed in "Ore ga sabaku n da" in 1962. Played Zenkichi Segawa in "Wakai hito" in 1962. Played Tajima in "Haha" in 1963. Performed in "Aoi sanmyaku" in 1963. Played Murata in "Arashi o yobu juhachi-nin" in 1963. Played Tsuzuki in "Gakuen hiroba" in 1963. Played Monk in "Echizen take-ningyo" in 1963. Played Ushi in "Onibaba" in 1964. Performed in "Echigo tsutsuishi oyashirazu" in 1964. Played Musician in "Akai satsui" in 1964. Played Retired man in "Seisaku no tsuma" in 1965. Played Yamasan, wealthy customer in "Osorezan no onna" in 1965. Played Matsukane in "Miseinen - Zoku cupola no aru machi" in 1965. Performed in "Shokei no shima" in 1966. Performed in "Ohanahan" in 1966. Played Husband in "Sei no kigen" in 1967. Performed in "Higashi shinakai" in 1968. Performed in "Nemureru bijo" in 1968. Performed in "Kamigami no fukaki yokubo" in 1968. Played A Farmer in "Yabu no naka no kuroneko" in 1968. Played Old man in "Kaette kita yopparai" in 1968. Played Zenzo in "Tsuyomushi onna to yowamushi otoko" in 1968. Performed in "Hakucyu no syugeki" in 1970. Performed in "Onsen konnyaku geisha" in 1970. Performed in "Hadaka no Jukyu-sai" in 1970. Played Pachinko owner in "Nippon no akuryo" in 1970. Performed in "Shokkaku" in 1970. Performed in "Chinmoku" in 1971. Played Hachizo in "Yami no naka no chimimoryo" in 1971. Played Old chief in "Gishiki" in 1971. Played Nomura in "Hirusagari no joji: Uramado" in 1972. Performed in "Onsen suppon geisha" in 1972. Played Physiognomist in "Kanawa" in 1972. Performed in "Yakusoku" in 1972. Played Harumatsu in "Sanka" in 1972. Played Shunkai in "Ai yori aoku" in 1973. Played Owner at a motor bike shop in "Nora inu" in 1973. Played Shimamura in "Konketsuji Rika: Hamagure komoriuta" in 1973. Played Ippei in "Jitsuroku Kazuko Shirakawa: hadaka no rirekisho" in 1973. Played Shimamura in "Konketsuji Rika: Hitoriyuku sasuraitabi" in 1973. Played Sex Show Manager in "Jitsuroku erogotoshitachi" in 1974. Performed in "Kagi" in 1974. Played Publican at Ebisu in "Suna no utsuwa" in 1974. Played Yoshizo Kawamura in "Waga michi" in 1974. Played Monk in "Kigeki: Tokudashi - Himo tengoku" in 1975. Performed in "Daitokai - tatakai no hibi" in 1976. Performed in "Kinkin no lumpen taisho" in 1976. Played Sakubei in "Chikuzan hitori tabi" in 1977. Played Kazumatsu Nagumo in "Furenzoku satsujin jiken" in 1977. Played Mountain Man in "Hanare goze Orin" in 1977. Played Old man in "Seibo Kannon daibosatsu" in 1977. Performed in "Yokomizo Seishi Series" in 1977. Played Taiji in "Junko wananaku" in 1978. Played Toichiro in "Ai no borei" in 1978. Performed in "Ogon no paatonaa" in 1979. Played Manzo Numata in "Tooi ashita" in 1979. Performed in "Kousatsu" in 1979. Performed in "Taiyo no ko teda no fua" in 1980. Played Kinba in "A un" in 1980. Played Tattooist in "Hokusai manga" in 1981. Played Man on festival boat in "Doro no kawa" in 1981. Played Yamaura in "Shin jiken: Waga uta wa hana ichimonme" in 1981. Performed in "Hakujitsumu" in 1981. Performed in "Nihon Philharmonic Orchestra: Honoo no dai gogakusho" in 1981. Played Jyosyuya in "Eijanaika" in 1981. Performed in "Haru ga kita" in 1982. Played Phamacist in "Mizu no nai puuru" in 1982. Played Horiatsu in "Irezumi" in 1982. Performed in "Toumei na kisetsu" in 1982. Played Doctor in "Anshitsu" in 1983. Performed in "Satomi hakken-den" in 1983. Performed in "Oiran" in 1983. Played Kazuhei Tanaka in "Namidabashi" in 1983. Performed in "Tropical Mystery: seishun kyowakoku" in 1984. Played Inumaru in "Location" in 1984. Played Tanimoto in "Chihei-sen" in 1984. Played Kamezo in "Seburi monogatari" in 1985. Performed in "Ikiteru uchiga hana nanoyo shin-dara sore madeyo to sengen" in 1985. Performed in "Harukoma no uta" in 1986. Played Gensai in "Jazz Daimyo" in 1986. Played Shokichi Shimamura in "Hawaiian Dream" in 1987. Played Shimada in "Zegen" in 1987. Played Ginzo in "Hotaru-gawa" in 1987. Performed in "The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 1" in 1987. Performed in "The Asami Mitsuhiko Mystery 3" in 1988. Played Grandpa in "Tokyo Pop" in 1988. Performed in "Sakura-tai Chiru" in 1988. Played Pharmacist in "Tomorrow - ashita" in 1988. Played The Old Priest in "Kuroi ame" in 1989. Performed in "Hana monogatari" in 1989. Played Monk in "Senba-zuru" in 1989.
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Suzuki Matsuo has: Played Himself - Narration in "NHK supesharu" in 1989. Performed in "Tokyo Blood" in 1993. Played Matsuki in "Ai no shinsekai" in 1994. Played Kamon Nandaba in "FLCL" in 2000. Played Man in "Shiki-Jitsu" in 2000. Played Policeman in "Pingu-Pongu" in 2002. Played Maru in "Chicken Heart" in 2002. Performed in "Drive" in 2002. Performed in "Nihon no razoku" in 2003. Performed in "Mask de 41" in 2004. Played Owner of Cake Shop in "Ima, ai ni yukimasu" in 2004. Played Marimoda in "Koi no mon" in 2004. Played Naito in "Ubume no natsu" in 2005. Played Bearded Oiran in "Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san" in 2005. Performed in "Onaji tsuki wo miteiru" in 2005. Played Azuma in "Sairen" in 2006. Performed in "Jigyaku no uta" in 2007. Played Endo in "Zukan ni nottenai mushi" in 2007. Played Tetsuma Gotokuji in "Robo-geisha" in 2009. Played Narrator in "Tabi no chikara" in 2011. Performed in "Inu no kieta hi" in 2011. Played Shinchan in "Mahoro ekimae Tada benriken" in 2011. Played Taro okamoto in "Taro no tou" in 2011. Performed in "R100" in 2013. Performed in "Ore Ore" in 2013.
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