Meiji Japanese geisha (Figure 3)
Japanese geisha hair so jealous Queen
After the Meiji Restoration of a Geisha and the politicians are getting closer. Who declared that "beauty Zuiwo knee, wake up the right to hold the world," Ito Hirobumi Ito plum is his first wife geisha. Ito Hirobumi came to power, but also specifically makes tea room opened in Yokohama, "wealth building" as a geisha and their place of rendezvous. 20th century's most famous geisha in Japan than in the spring of the village of hi. Hi Nakamura was born in Tokyo in spring 1913, his father is a prestigious local doctors, his family was very rich. A child, in the spring to the village on the Opera House stage, hi those dressed in traditional kimono, geisha makeup fascinated.
She often dreams of one day can stand on their own that stage. 15 years old, she was against the wishes of her parents, to join the ranks of the geisha. With your talent and hard training, a few years later, in the spring of the village hi fame. Japan not only flush, and even famous movie stars Charlie Chaplin once came to watch her performance attracted.
Speaking of World War II after the name of a Geisha, Iwasaki peak to mention son of rage, the novel "Memoirs of a Geisha" is a prototype of her creation. World War II, Japan's cultural diplomacy as a means of geisha were often host foreign dignitaries. The face of these political heavyweights world to children as the representative of the peak Iwasaki geisha discuss ways to guests in their favor, but also showed strong self-esteem. April 1970, Iwasaki peak child participate in the reception of Prince Charles's private tea ceremony, the British Council. After the show, Prince Charles is still enough, to see made to the peak child she was the fan. When she handed the fan Charles, Charles did not seek her consent to sign his name on the fan. This is very worthwhile for most people the glory of the peak allows the child to do very unhappy to go home after having the fan throw.
May 1975, Queen Elizabeth's state visit to Japan. A dinner, invited to accompany child Iwasaki peak, but the queen of the geisha who ignore them and does not eat the food prepared for many days, which makes the peak child was very unhappy. Excuse her conversation with the Queen and her husband Prince Philip to make some intimate moves, the Queen really popular with stimulation, the Queen said to his wife that night to sleep apart. After 70 years of the 20th century, Western culture and Japanese culture in the double impact, the geisha industry gradually decline. In the early 20th century, Japan once had more than 80,000 geisha, women are now engaged in this industry only a few hundred people, and almost concentrated in Tokyo and Kyoto, and a few large cities, but the geisha culture is still a profound impact on Japan. Japan's first novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for Kawabata Yasunari's famous "The Izu Dancer" and "Snow Country" is the description of geisha romance. Known as the "Geisha Road," a code of conduct, has become a modern Japanese women's life and social model.In this sense, the traditional Japanese geisha is a carrier of cultural heritage, the geisha culture in Japan has been deeply rooted in modern culture, there is no decline.