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ochaya

Japanese word for 'teahouse'. An ochaya does not serve food, but it will order it from caterers. Ochaya have many banquet rooms, called zashiki or ozashiki. Customers have after-work parties here, and hire maiko or geiko to attend as entertainers.

I am going to the ochaya now, to entertain.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 11, 2007


Ochaya

Japanese word for 'teahouse'. An ochaya does not serve food, but it will order it from caterers. Ochaya have many banquet rooms, called zashiki or ozashiki. Customers have after-work parties here, and hire maiko or geiko to attend as entertainers.

I am going to the ochaya now, to entertain.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 16, 2007


okiya

A lodging house specifically for geisha. The inhabitants may include: Okasan (Mother, owner, proprietress), Geiko, Maiko, Shikomi, and Maids and/or Cook. Contrary to popular belief, men (except priests and dressers) are not allowed inside the okiya. Sexual relations in an okiya is frowned upon and rare.

When the two maiko finished class, they returned home to the okiya.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 8, 2007

25πŸ‘ 7πŸ‘Ž


Iwasaki Mineko

The most famous geiko in all of Japan. She was raised to be the atotori. She had the most publicity, and the most customers. Her yearly salary broke a record for all the maiko and geiko. Young maiko today call her legend. Mineko-san retired when she was only 29, a shock to everyone around her. She is also know as the geisha, Memoirs of a Geisha is based on. But, Arthur Golden cruelly twisted her story. So, Mineko-san wrote her own memoir, Geisha a Life, also know as Geisha of Gion. Mineko-san lives with her artist husband in a Kyoto suburb, and the two have one adult daughter.

Iwasaki Mineko danced many years ago before Prince Charles.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 16, 2007

8πŸ‘ 1πŸ‘Ž


Iwasaki Mineko

The most famous geiko in all of Japan. She was raised to be the atotori. She had the most publicity, and the most customers. Her yearly salary broke a record for all the maiko and geiko. Young maiko today call her legend. Mineko-san retired when she was only 29, a shock to everyone around her. She is also know as the geisha, Memoirs of a Geisha is based on. But, Arthur Golden cruelly twisted her story. So, Mineko-san wrote her own memoir, Geisha a Life, also know as Geisha of Gion. Mineko-san lives with her artist husband in a Kyoto suburb, and the two have one adult daughter.

Iwasaki Mineko danced many years ago before Prince Charles.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 11, 2007

7πŸ‘ 1πŸ‘Ž


Diamond Dog

Courtesan/Can Can Dancer at the 19th Century dance club, Moulin Rouge.

Nini legs in the Air is a Diamond Dog.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 15, 2007

29πŸ‘ 16πŸ‘Ž


-chan

Affectionate and personal Japanese suffix, attached to a shortened version of one's personal name. In Japan, one never does this to anyone above them, only those lower or equal.

My name is Mineko, but Okasan(Mother) calls me Mine-chan.

by Mimosa 'Mineko Iwasaki' January 15, 2007

42πŸ‘ 20πŸ‘Ž