KYOTO, Japan — On the quiet streets of Kyoto you will get a glimpse of them. Dressed in Kimono. The familiar white makeup. Walking quickly. That is the extent of what most people see of a geisha.

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AT first blush Azuha and Seiko, two geishas in Tokyo’s Asakusa neighbourhood, are paragons of Japanese decorum. With white-painted faces and silky black hair, they dance elegantly in silk kimonos for ...

Inspired by Arthur Golden's massively popular Memoirs of a Geisha to ""meet the real geisha"" in the last stronghold of geisha training in Japan, Downer skillfully intertwines her profiles of Kyoto ...