Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AN AUSTRALIAN woman has become the first Westerner to be allowed to enter the mysterious world of Japan's geisha. Fiona Graham, ...

KYOTO, Japan — On the quiet streets of Kyoto you will get a glimpse of them. Dressed in Kimono. The familiar white makeup. Walking quickly. That is the extent of what most people see of a geisha.

Geisha training is unglamorous, routine work day in and day out. Photo / Getty Images Mentor fully understands how difficult it is to raise today's young girls to full-fledged maiko. In the geisha ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A MELBOURNE woman has been allowed to enter the mysterious "flower and willow world" of Japan's geisha for the first time. Fiona Graham ...

Geishas in Japan have an enigmatic charm about them. They are so revered that a teacher of the art was once declared a “living national treasure” in the country. Seeing a real geisha is not that easy, ...

The woman, originally from Melbourne and now going only by her professional name Sayuki, first came to Japan at the age of 15 on a school exchange programme. True to tradition, Sayuki won't reveal her ...

Arthur Golden’s 1997 novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” is an addictive read: an involving, almost Dickensian tale of a young woman’s rise from poverty in a fishing village to fame as a Kyoto geisha in the ...