0 (often geisha girl) a Japanese girl trained to entertain (men) by her conversation, dancing etc. -- geisha
We briefly see one of the geishas playing the shamisen but never see the source of the vocal line.
We also briefly view three dancing geishas and do hear their footstomps.
In the late eighteenth century, dancing women called odoriko and newly popular female geisha began entertaining men at banquets in unlicensed districts.
These feature a crest of the geisha house on the front, and the geiko's name on the back (house name, then personal name).
Such districts would contain various "okiya" (geisha houses).
Willow is a traditional image associated with geisha.
The way a geisha wears her kanzashi indicates her status immediately to an informed audience according to the type and location of the kanzashi.
In contrast to these one-night geisha, the true onsen geisha are in fact competent dancers and musicians.
