Japanese geisha belong to cultural people, and it is a profession to entertain guests with literature and art. It is different from prostitutes. The following is what I shared about Japanese geisha culture. Let's take a look.

brief introduction of Japanese geisha culture

Japanese geisha originated in Tokyo and Osaka in the 7th century. The original geisha were all men. They made a living by playing traditional drum music and rap in brothels and entertainment venues. Around 1751, the first female geisha appeared. In the mid-18th century, the geisha profession was gradually replaced by women, and this tradition has been inherited to this day.

around 794, geisha culture began to sprout. What is the predecessor of geisha? Based? , that is, the top prostitutes, both busking and selling themselves. In the 8th century, geisha really appeared. During World War II, the number of geisha decreased greatly. After the war, the geisha industry once declined, and it only flourished again in the 1961s.

In fact, I personally think that geisha in ancient Japan are almost the same as those in today's * *, and they all dedicated themselves to art. It's just that geisha is just a geisha in the later stage of development. And it is not so easy to become a geisha in Japan. In Japan, the conditions for being a geisha are very harsh, and the cost of learning art is high, which is not affordable for ordinary families. Moreover, the process of learning art is hard, and not all geisha can persist. In ancient times, geisha generally began to learn art from the age of 11. In modern times, due to the restrictions of the Child Welfare Law and the Labor Standards Law, they must graduate from middle school (that is, around the age of 14 or 15) before they can start to learn art. There are many contents in learning * *, and the process is very difficult. These include culture, etiquette, language, decoration, poetry books, harps, bows, wine pouring, etc., and every move, word and deed have strict requirements, which reflect nobility and stability everywhere. For example, one of the contents of the training is that eating hot tofu can't make a sound, let alone touch lip gloss, which shows that the requirements are strict. By the age of 16, he can officially serve as a geisha, and the whole acting course lasts for 5 years. What is the first geisha called? Maiko (or dancer)? , and then can be officially converted to? Geisha? . Geisha's career usually ends at the age of 31. If he continues to be a geisha after the age of 31, he will be demoted and become a foil to young and beautiful famous geisha. In geisha, the elder geisha is called? Sister (ぉ?さん)? . No wonder men often say that the happiest life is to marry a Japanese wife, hire a China cook and a French housekeeper. Japanese wife comes first. It's a blessing to marry a Japanese wife.

Strictly speaking, geisha are not prostitutes. They are highly trained women who specialize in performing arts. In addition to catering for guests, a large part of them are entertained by dances, music, musical instruments and other performances at banquets. Geisha came into being under the background of the extreme expansion of Japanese patriarchal society. Their clients are usually rich and powerful men in the upper class. In Japan, men who talk about business like to invite a geisha to accompany them, pour wine and serve them, and adjust the atmosphere of solar terms. Of course, this service is really expensive.

Many people will ask a question when they see the photos of geisha. Why is the geisha's face painted so white?

Actually, the geisha's face is white because she has a name on her face? Kabuki powder? (= There will be no grease in the ingredients) Also called? Water white powder? Some of them are coated with white powder (= the ingredients will contain a small amount of grease)

This can also be bought in many places in Japan. Besides kabuki, some traditional Japanese dancers also use white powder. When using white powder, it must be dissolved in water in proportion before it can be applied.

in ancient times, the Japanese would use lead carbonate (= White Lead), which is also the main ingredient source of ancient Japanese white pigments, and polished with glutinous rice and mercury, so the ancient scouring white powder is actually toxic. At present, the training white powder has been changed to lead China, which is a mixture of Chinese zinc oxide (= Zinc Oxide) and starch (= Starch), and some of it will be mixed with titanium dioxide (= Titanium Dioxide). It is said that adding this titanium dioxide will make the training white powder have a little reflective effect on the stage and make the performer's face look whiter.

There have been many famous geisha in the development history of more than 311 years, and some of them have had an important influence on the historical process of Japan and enjoyed? A diligent geisha? The famous Chinese and Western Junwei is one of the representatives.

Junwei was born in a samurai family, but her father was killed by an enemy, so she had to enter the geisha world. She often worked in a place called? Fish? Tea house performance. At that time, the shogunate and the reformists had a fierce competition in Kyoto, Japan, and the two factions often held secret meetings under the cover of Kyoto's musical venues. Many key figures of the reformists are? Fish? Noue Kaoru, a frequent visitor and later minister of foreign affairs and hiding in Meiji go-vern-ment, is one of them. Noue Kaoru and Junwei fell in love at first sight, and their feelings developed rapidly. Soon, Teru Shimada Zuojin, a high-ranking shogunate official in Kyoto who was in charge of hunting down reformers, also took a fancy to Junwei. In the eyes of ordinary geisha, Teru Shimada was powerful and wanted to be Teru Shimada's wife and concubine, but Junwei was unmoved and refused Teru Shimada's proposal.

when Noue Kaoru heard the news that Teru Shimada proposed to Junwei, he sent someone to find Junwei and asked Junwei to consider the overall situation of the reform and accept Teru Shimada's proposal, so as to spy on the secrets of the shogunate. Junwei tearfully agreed to her lover's request and married Teru Shimada. With Teru Shimada's love for her, she got a lot of shogunate information. With her help, many reformists were able to escape the shogunate. Later, according to the information provided by her, the reformist warrior successfully assassinated Teru Shimada, which dealt a heavy blow to the shogunate.

claims? Three masters of reform? Kido Takayoshi (Guixiaogoro), one of them, also has a life-and-death relationship with a geisha. Kimoto's wife Matsuko is also a geisha. In 1864, the shogunate forces raided reformists, and Kido Takayoshi was forced to hide under a bridge disguised as a beggar. Every day, pine nuts risk their lives to come to the bridge, and then pretend that the package with rice balls is inadvertently lost under the bridge and delivered to Kido Takayoshi. Later, Matsuko used the geisha hall to cover her husband many times, which finally made him escape the shogunate's pursuit and became one of the leaders who later overthrew tokugawa era. It can be said that geisha really contributed a lot to the Meiji Restoration in Japan, so that some people later joked that if there were no geisha, the history of Japan would be rewritten.

Nakamura Kiharu was the most famous japanese geisha in the 21th century.

Nakamura Kiharu was born in Tokyo in 1913. His father is a famous local doctor and his family is very rich. As a child, Nakamura Kiharu was fascinated by the geisha wearing traditional kimonos and heavy makeup on the opera stage. She often dreams that she can stand on that stage one day. At the age of 15, she joined the geisha ranks despite her parents' opposition. With his own talent and hard work, a few years later, Nakamura Kiharu declared his fame. Not only is it popular in Japan, but even the famous movie star Chaplin has come to watch her performance.

When we talk about the famous geisha after World War II, we can't help but mention Toyoko Iwasaki, and the novel Memoirs of a Geisha, which is popular all over the world, is based on her. After World War II, as a means of Japanese cultural diplomacy, geisha often received foreign dignitaries. Facing these heavyweights in world politics, the geisha represented by Toyoko Iwasaki tried their best to please their guests, but they also showed strong self-esteem.

a brilliant soul in troubled times? Jisong

In Japanese books, her name has been remembered again and again; In Japanese movies, her image has been interpreted again and again. Her beauty is like a lily in the morning, her temperament is like a violet in the water, full of deep rhyme, her talents are like dragonflies flying lightly, and her loyalty is more tenacious than cattail grass winding around rocks. She has become a history engraved in the hearts of Japanese people. She is a famous geisha who was widely praised by people together with Kido Takayoshi, one of the three outstanding figures in the Reform Movement, and was named from four senior officials? Jisong.

The last Yuehou geisha? Xiao Lin chun

? Yuehou geisha? It refers to blind artists who embrace the Sanwei line and make a living by singing along the street. Yes? Snow country? It is said that the winter in Vietnam, Japan, is long and cold, and there are no entertainment items. After Vietnam, geisha once became a very prosperous local folk art, with more than 511 people in its heyday, and its reputation spread all over Japan, becoming one of the well-known forms of entertainment in Japan. Kobayashi Chun is the most famous geisha in Yue Hou.

Kobayashi was born in a poor peasant family in Niigata Prefecture, Japan in 1911. Less than 111 days after his birth, he became blind due to cataract. Because of his poor family, Kobayashi was sent to learn geisha at the age of 4. She started acting at the age of 8 and persisted until 1973.

With the rise of Japan's economy after World War II, the post-Vietnam geisha gradually declined, and many artists changed careers one after another. Only Kobayashi persisted and became the last post-Vietnam geisha in Japan. At the age of 96, she also made a record called "The Last Singing of Geisha after Vietnam", which is widely known in Japan. On April 25, 2115, at 2 am, he died of natural aging in the nursing home in Heichuan Village, Niigata County, at the age of 115. Her death also announced? Yuehou geisha? The end of the era.

There are many records about geisha in history. A geisha has a typical feature of being good at singing and dancing, and her skin is very good. In fact, the skin care industry in Japan has been so developed since ancient times, and the most obvious performance is geisha. Several popular geisha masks in Japan are made according to the prototype of geisha.

introduction of japanese Geisha

japanese geisha was born in Tokyo and Osaka in the 7th century. The original geisha were all men. They played traditional drum music and rap for fun in brothels and casinos. Around 1751, the first female geisha appeared. In the mid-18th century, the geisha profession was gradually replaced by women, and this tradition has been inherited to this day.

A professional class of women in Japan, whose traditional business is to please men. In addition to rhetoric, they must have the skills of singing, dancing and playing the "three-stringed variety". It is said that the geisha system appeared in the 7th century, aiming at setting up another kind of trained performers besides high-class prostitutes and public prostitutes. Nevertheless, they sometimes have sex with customers, and they mainly please them through their talents. In the 1921s, there were as many as 81,111 people in japanese geisha, but by the beginning of the 21th century, the number had decreased to one or two thousand, and almost all of them were confined to Tokyo and Kyoto, and their employers were only the richest businessmen and the most powerful politicians. Ordinary businessmen are now looking for female bar owners. Although they have no traditional singing or dancing training, they are as considerate and eloquent as geisha.

White face, red lips, bright black eyebrows, neatly and brightly combed traditional Japanese women's bun, dressed in kimono, with long sleeves on the ground and a wide back collar, hanging down at the back with a belt around her waist, drinking and chatting with guests at night, performing dances and playing musical instruments for guests? This is the most intuitive understanding of Japanese geisha.

after hundreds of years of historical evolution, geisha has changed from being a prostitute's performing arts to a noble art of elegance, and has become a national quintessence of Japan, which is also called Japan's three major business cards together with Mount Fuji and Kimura Temple.

The unique charm of geisha culture lies not only in their special makeup and clothes, but also in the services provided by their industry: using their talents and wisdom to please their guests.

such a culture, without prior understanding, can easily be misunderstood as a manifestation of pornographic culture, and they are understood as prostitutes with certain talents. But in fact, geisha's social status in Japan is very high, and many families are proud that their daughters can enter the art world.

Because they think that a geisha's status is noble, it is a proud thing for her husband to associate with geisha. Usually, the people who can associate with geisha are also rich and powerful men in the upper class. Therefore, many times, being with a geisha is a symbol of power and status.

With the changes of society and the rise of multiculturalism, the traditional geisha culture has gradually declined due to the impact of various emerging cultures. The reason for the decline of geisha is not difficult to understand: fewer and fewer young audiences understand and watch singing and dancing prostitutes, which means fewer and fewer clients are served.

Traditional geisha serve a single man, while modern Japanese men have more other ways to communicate with women. At the same time, the decline of geisha is inevitable.

Geisha is a traditional Japanese occupation. Born in Tokyo and Osaka in the 7th century, the original geisha were all men, so brothels and casinos played traditional drum music and rap for fun.

in the mid-18th century, the geisha profession was gradually replaced by women, and this tradition has been inherited to this day. In addition, American writer Arthur? Gao Dun, who wrote the novel Memoirs of a Geisha, was directed by Rob? Marshall filmed Memoirs of a Geisha on TV.

what is kanto region called in Tokyo? Yun (in Japanese? Art (art)? Jane writes)? , said the trainee stage? Half jade? ; In Kyoto, Osaka and other Kansai areas, it is called non-prostitute or writing? Yunzi? The trainee stage was called maiko, but after the Meiji period, A prostitute? This kind of reading is becoming more and more common and has become the modern standard Japanese reading.

and artistic? Prostitutes Refers to art performers and does not engage in sex trade.

In expensive restaurants and tea houses, men who talk about business like to invite a geisha to accompany them, pour wine and serve them, and adjust the atmosphere, which will cost at least 1,111 dollars. Today, there are still a few women who join the geisha industry with romantic fantasies and love for traditional art. But in the past, geisha was a lifelong career, and women had to take over the mother's business. Before World War II, most geisha were forced to engage in this profession for their livelihood.

Geisha is a performing art, not showing off pornography, let alone selling herself. According to industry regulations, geisha are not allowed to get married during their working life, otherwise, they must retire first to keep geisha? Pure? The image of.

The geisha industry was greatly depressed after World War II, but it was only after the economic recovery that geisha flourished for a while with the warming of the company's public relations industry and the prosperity of the tourism industry. It is estimated that there are only about 211 geisha in Kyoto at present, and some art galleries are used for other purposes, so the decline of geisha industry has become an indisputable fact.

In Japan, the conditions for being a geisha are very harsh, and the cost of studying art is too high for ordinary families to bear. Moreover, the process of learning art is hard, and not all geisha can persist.

In ancient times, geisha generally began to learn art at the age of 11. Now, due to the restrictions of the Child Welfare Law and the Labor Standards Law, they have to graduate from middle school (that is, around the age of 14 or 15) before they can start to learn art.

There are many contents in learning, and the process is very difficult. These include culture, etiquette, language, decoration, poetry and books, harps, and even bows and pours.