Extreme Wife

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  RHP User

  13 years ago

  Yeah I watched it and wasn't all that impressed this time. Geisha is a cultural construct and they do not generally become wives nor do they have sex with patrons. I am not sure exactly why she decided to include geishas' ? Dawn also only had a week to run her hands over being a geisha, I am not entirely sure she managed to get to grips with the concept. Dawn also seems to be a bit of a cultural snob. Her treatment of the young women becoming geisha was singularly ignorant of the cultural significance of things like the tea ceremony, figurative dance or music. Not one of her better efforts. Mike

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  RHP User

  13 years ago

  Watching it as we speak and very surprised that in a country of 125 million I have seen some of them before.Kikune is a young meiko featured in a BBC show called Geisha Girl.Peter is featured in a documentary about westerners living in Japan I saw on YouTube.Why the fascination in Japan at the moment? Mrs Tri and I are heading there at the end of September.

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  13 years ago

  Being a Geisha is an honourable profession   19th century geisha Geisha (meaning "art person") are women who practice the 250-year-old art of gei ("artistic skills"), and have traditionally entertained and charmed wealthy customers men with music, dance, song and witty conversation. Some think they look dolls. By and large men are supposed to admire but not touch.   "Through discipline and talent, the geisha has created a life of beauty. She has made herself into the image of the perfect woman, the embodiment of Japanese culture and refinement, a living work of art," wrote Jodi Cobb in National Geographic. "Her business is to sell a dream—of luxury, romance, and exclusivity—to the wealthiest and most powerful men in Japan. Inside the most expensive restaurants and tea houses, as men conduct delicate business negotiations, geisha pour sake and keep the conversation flowing—at a cost of thousands of dollars." Being a geisha was one of the few ways a woman—or even a person—of “common birth could achieve wealth, status and fame. In the old days many geisha married influential samurai-turned-politicians and used their connections and skills to advance their husband’s careers.

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