Quotes About Geisha

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound

I'm sure there are a great many things I don't know about these women in their splendid dresses, but I often have the feeling that without their wealthy husbands or boyfriends, many of them would be struggling to get by and might not bare the same proud opinions of themselves. And of course, the same thing is true for a first-class Geisha.

No nos hacemos geishas para tener una vida feliz; nos hacemos geishas porque no tenemos otra opción».

Nikad nisam stvarno razumjela zašto se Hatsumomo izlaže takvom riziku i dovodi ljubavnika u okiju, iako je nju vjerojatno upravo to uzbu?ivalo.

Se considera que el mandril de África central es el más vistoso de todos los primates -dijo-. Pero yo creo que la aprendiz de geisha es tal vez el más vistoso de todos los primates.

Când Hatsumomo trecea pe lâng? mine pe coridor, în toat? splendoarea ei, cu machiajul alb str?lucind deasupra chimonoului întunecat, ca luna pe cerul palid al nopÈ›ii, sunt sigur? c? È™i un orb ar fi g?sit-o frumoas?.

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Când Nobu a intrat în înc?pere, zâmbetul fermec?tor al lui Hatsumomo a înflorit, pân? când buzele ei pline au ajuns ca dou? uriaÈ™e pic?turi de sânge adunate la gura unei r?ni.

Tatcha is my favorite beauty brand. They were also founded in San Francisco. Their entire line is based off of geisha tradition and ritual. The line has transformed my skin.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

This is why the whole notion of "geisha houses" being dens of ill repute is so ridiculous. Men are barely allowed inside these bastions of feminine society, let alone permitted to frolic with the inhabitants after they arrive.

Basically, I was booked solid for the entire five years that I was a maiko.