矢島舞美
Elusive - Gion por Matt Lindén
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So, I’d been walking around Gion (in Kyoto) for a while, creeping around the small streets hoping to catch a glimpse of one of those elusive nighttime creatures - the Geisha. It wasn’t easy as they don’t like to be seen, but I managed - *just* - to get a few shots. Here are a few, huddled in the back seat of a taxi, most likely to be driven to a very wealthy client.
I admire their ghostly white faces, red lips, black hair and above all their flawless demeanor. It gives me some good ideas for a photo-shoot…
Matt
From Wikipedia:
Gion (祇園) is a district of Kyoto, Japan, originally developed in the Middle Ages, in front of Yasaka Shrine. The district was built to accommodate the needs of travelers and visitors to the shrine. It eventually evolved to become one of the most exclusive and well-known geisha districts in all of Japan.
The geisha in the Gion district do not refer to themselves as geisha; instead, Gion geisha use the local term geiko. While the term geisha means “artist” or “person of the arts”, the more direct term geiko means essentially “a child of the arts” or “a woman of art”.
She’s ready por 小川 Ogawasan
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MAIKO (apprentice geisha) Kimiaya-san from Miyagawacho /
宮川町 京都 . 舞妓 君綾さん
Tokyo 400 por tokyoform
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Tokyo 2896 por tokyoform
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She’s ready por 小川 Ogawasan
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MAIKO (apprentice geisha) Kimiaya-san from Miyagawacho /
宮川町 京都 . 舞妓 君綾さん
Bullet-train babe: Tokyo Station, Japan por Alfie Goodrich
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Not only do Japanese bullet-trains look cool, the ladies who work on them are beautiful too.
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f/1.6
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Strolling in Kyoto 京都にて por Akhenaton Lichterowicz
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Maikos were in traditional Japan educated to master arts in order to entertain their hosts. Hence this culture is disappearing, this vanishing is slower than we first could have thought, and we still can benefit from this refreshing vision sometimes, as if these white figures from the past were struggling for their existence in a country stuffed with base-ball, Starbucks and western-styled suits. Here, two young Japanese tourists dressing up themselves during a trip to the former imperial capital of the Empire, Kyoto.