Later in life, Masuda became a tea ceremony master under the name Donnō. Okakura Kakuzō ... was attended by three geisha who had traveled to Paris for the occasion. At the time, the Japanese ...

“Japanese people themselves often don’t understand or have the wrong idea about what geishas do,” Hisafumi Iwashita, a writer specialised in geisha culture, says.

“Japanese people themselves often don’t understand or have the wrong idea about what geishas do,” Hisafumi Iwashita, a writer specialized in geisha culture, told AFP. In Japanese, the word ...

“Japanese people themselves often don’t understand or have the wrong idea about what geishas do,” said Hisafumi Iwashita, a writer specialised in geisha culture. In Japanese, the word geisha means ...

"Japanese people themselves often don't understand or have the wrong idea about what geishas do," said Hisafumi Iwashita, a writer specialised in geisha culture. In Japanese, the word geisha means ...