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Japan’s Fantasy Girls – Geisha to Maid Cafes

The era of the Geisha for the most part has ended, but the cultural tradition of larger than life females remains very much alive.  Outside traditional areas in cities like Kyoto, there are very few...

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How Women Ruined the Lives of Male Geisha Everywhere

The first geisha were men. No they weren’t cross-dressers, and no they weren’t gigolos either. The taikomochi (also known as houkan), were the original geisha of Japan and they were manly man men. I...

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Japanese Cinderella And The Atomic Bomb

The famous novel Memoirs of a Geisha is told from the perspective of a fictional geisha named Nitta Sayuri. Sayuri has a dramatic, eventful life (with some guy by the name of Koichi causing a lot of...

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