{"id":638,"date":"2008-06-26T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/geisha-making-comeback-in-internet-age-whod-a-thunk\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:28:35","slug":"geisha-making-comeback-in-internet-age-whod-a-thunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/26\/geisha-making-comeback-in-internet-age-whod-a-thunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisha Head So Good Cultural Revival via Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jun\/25\/japan.internet?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 2.2em; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; width: 450px; border-color: #d61d00; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Renewed respect as geisha make a comeback &#8211; and take to cyberspace<\/h1>\n<p id=\"stand-first\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.335em; line-height: 1.25; padding-bottom: 30px; color: #666666; width: 460px; margin: 0px\">Teenage girls are flocking to enter &#8216;floating world&#8217; in return to traditional culture<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-attributes\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 12px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 54px; border-color: #d61d00\">\n<li class=\"byline\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/justinmccurry\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Justin McCurry}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Justin McCurry}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Justin McCurry<\/a>\u00a0in Kyoto<\/li>\n<li class=\"publication\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">The Guardian<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"date\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Wednesday June 25, 2008<\/li>\n<li class=\"history\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25; margin-right: 3px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px\"><a class=\"sendbyline\" id=\"historylink-byline\" style=\"cursor: pointer; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Article history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"article-wrapper\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/06\/24\/geisha6.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" alt=\"Kyoto geisha girls\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #999999; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px\">Kyoto geisha girls. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Miehina has barely taken a dozen steps along a Kyoto street before the audio backdrop to her every public move comes to life. In the fading light of an early summer evening, the metronomic clip-clop of her platform okobo sandals is accompanied by the clicking of shutters, as a gaggle of amateur photographers seeks the perfect snapshot of one of Japan&#8217;s most venerated women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">They stay with her until she retreats down a backstreet and slips through the sliding wooden door of her teahouse, her emerald green kimono, worth tens of thousands of pounds, now no more than a photogenic imprint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">In the past tourists would have had to wait hours for a fleeting glimpse of a lone geisha on her way to an appointment. Now they are spoiled for choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">After decades of decline, Japan&#8217;s traditional entertainers are making a comeback. Earlier this year the number of geisha trainees &#8211; known as maiko &#8211; reached 100 in Kyoto for the first time in four decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Much of the mild embarrassment many Japanese felt about the geisha thread running through their cultural fabric arose from popular misconceptions: the suspicion that, beneath the veneer of cultural exclusivity, they were little more than high-class prostitutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YPYjR2tcq8c&amp;hl=en\" name=\"movie\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YPYjR2tcq8c&amp;hl=en\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>\u00a0Though illicit sex is not unheard of, the myths surrounding the geisha are slowly unravelling amid unprecedented media exposure and a belated embrace of the internet among the teahouses of Kyoto&#8217;s five geisha districts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Experts believe the recent surge in teenage girls hoping to enter the &#8220;floating world&#8221; of tea ceremonies, performing arts, and yes, flirtatious exchanges with inebriated clients, is evidence of renewed respect among the Japanese for their traditional culture.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jun\/25\/japan.internet?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Guardian UK<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Renewed respect as geisha make a comeback &#8211; and take to cyberspace Teenage girls are flocking to enter &#8216;floating world&#8217; in return to traditional culture Justin McCurry\u00a0in Kyoto The Guardian,\u00a0 Wednesday June 25, 2008 Article history \u00a0 Kyoto geisha girls. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert Miehina has barely taken a dozen steps along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}