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“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.”
-Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

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2015
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with the hair ornaments, she looks more like a maiko! (apprentice geisha) since the only ornaments geisha wear are an ivory or tortoiseshell comb on the crown of their head & a bamboo tie on the back of their hair that's usually white.

Maiko wear more ornaments, like kensashi & are ornamental & flashy. Geisha are more subdued & subtle.

I don't mean to offend but anything written by author golden is a joke, especially memoirs of a geisha, which he twisted into an erotic fantasy that stereotyped geisha/maiko even more.
Still pretty art!  all your art is amazing