Geisha - Japan
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July 2007
As 'Memoirs of a Geisha' goes on general release, we follow two Geisha apprentices on their training. It's an intriguing glimpse of what goes on behind the painted smiles.
Produced by ABC Australia
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The parents approval or not doesn't make Geisha prostitutes. If you think of other cultural situations, even today, which parents do like their daughter to become an actress or a singer? Parents usually want their daughters to be "common", they love to have their daughters go to University and be doctors or lawyers or anything more "regular". Geisha have never been prostitutes, NEVER! Their intimate sex life is their own choice. Not to be discussed in public.
Japanese social situation wasn't good and still isn't for women. Arranged marriages between families or live in poverty were the two options. I know that little girls were literally sold to a okamisan that invested a lot of money training the girls to become "beautiful"- in the traditional sense of beauty for the Japanese. However, things are not clear, even today.
Even samurai are overrated. We know that only some samurai families lived with some money, depending on the clans. the ones closest to the daymio could have some power, but most of samurai don't match at all to the mythical image we have now, about their code of honour etc. Marriages were a matter of money, a matter of power. Obviously, being the woman in the position of no power at all, in the marriage.
The Bushido Code of the so called "samurai" is similar to the code of silence among Geisha. The fact is that we really don't know what happens or happened behind closed doors. What the american writer Arthur Golden wrote is a novel. It's fiction. To be better informed , I suggest the book that Iwasaki san wrote. The Geisha that is portrayed in his book is supposed to be Mineko Iwasaki, just read her book, instead of his. It's her autobiography.
Geisha are a tradition that is to be preserved and respected, just like Kabuki actors or Noa actors. Nowadays, there is no reason for us to keep confusing Geisha with oiran. There is a clear difference among them. Geisha remain as one of the last Japanese traditions, I'm very very sad to see that even today, the misconception continues.
The history of Geisha goes back in time and still remain as a symbol of Japan. They really should be respected.
Although it is true that the western world had an exaggarated view about Samurais, it doesn't mean it was wrong.
Masamune Date, Miyamoto Musashi, Tadakatsu Honda, and endless other names were exactly those legends, philosophers, and visioners, who tried to take their philosophy into the battle.
But yes, not everyone who called his ownself "Samurai" was really what a samurai should be. And in many cases, they became corrupt.
but sometimes they will be offered and offer themselves.
the book "memories of a geisha" is one of the best books of the world^^