geisha

Noun

Meaning

a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing

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I could list some Japanese films illustrating this, but the last thing the audience for Memoirs of a Geisha wants to see is a more truthful film with less gorgeous women and shabbier production values. Roger Ebert

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. Arthur Golden

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. Diana Vreeland

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. Zhang Ziyi

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. Zhang Ziyi

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. Arthur Golden

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