Geisha

Travelling to Japan and maintaining a blog, this is a necessary post, but I am not enjoying it too much because regardless of what I show or write people are bound to be dissapointed, mostly because the expectation are so high.

I will not even try to go into the historical or cultural mambo-jumbo, you have wikipedia for that - I will just say that you still see them in Kyoto in the Gion neighbourhood (fig 1) - our guide was very vague as to what is a contemporary Geisha has to do (he only said that it is very expensive :) - but he did show us a Geisha house (fig2) and exaplain the basic beaurocracy: bottom floor is the "manager offices"; top floor is the learning quarters - mostly dance, but he pointed out that Geisha are permanently learning something new, so the learning quarters are not only reserved for new Geishas, and the middle floor is ...