TOKYO — Tsumami kanzashi are Japanese hair ornaments that were worn by geisha and young daughters of the nobility in a tradition dating back hundreds of years. They’re complex and gorgeous, and the ...

There were a lot of Japanese tourists in San Francisco on Wednesday, but it's probably a safe bet that Umeha and Umechika were the only two authentic geisha, in traditional kimono and white makeup, ...

KYOTO (Reuters) - Just eight years ago, Komomo was a Japanese teenager living in Beijing, riding her bicycle around the city and playing pool with her friends on weekends. Sign up here. Now she is a ...

Eight geisha are performing the Hana-no-mai (Flower Dance) in your room at a traditional Japanese inn. They move slowly, like mythical cranes, resplendent in blue, green and orange kimono, as an old ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she grew older. In the process, she revived and protected not only her ...

The beauty of one of Tokyo's most popular geisha has been preserved in a series of stunning postcards taken more than a century ago. The collection of images shows Hawaryu, who worked in the Japanese ...

Solid, green and iridescent, it bears little resemblance to a standard lipstick. But for hundreds of years, Japan's geisha would never leave home without dipping a wet brush into a natural compound ...

Take a step back into old Japan with some geisha dances and rakugo, the traditional form of comic storytelling that flourished among Edo's merchant classes. Pieces like the Edo-era vaudeville ...