As I wrote in a previous ‘Transcreating Tokyo’ column, the city of Edo-Tokyo has given birth to three main forms of bodily entertainment: kabuki theatre, sumo wrestling and geisha ‘service’. Now that ...

A "maiko," or a geisha apprentice, is seen with a "kanzashi" hair accessory bearing the name of an actor in the Kaomise Production Kabuki show, an annual winter event underway at Minamiza Theatre in ...

Discriminating geisha girls came near to swooning over him. Austere drama critics agreed that no Kabuki actor had mastered his art more perfectly. A great lover, onstage and off, lithe, handsome, ...

KYOTO -- An annual event where "geiko," or geisha, and "maiko," or apprentice geisha, watch kabuki shows as part of their studies was held at the Minamiza Theatre in this city's Higashiyama Ward on ...