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Originally Posted by EveV
Noo doctor crab near the beginning.
When she's becoming a geisha.
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But that's part of the Mizuage ceremony! Every maiko has to go through it if they want to become an actual geisha; that's no act of prostitution o.Ô More like a matter of honor actually, and they don't even get to keep the money they've gotten paid for it; if I'm not wrong, it's either their 'older-sister' (senior geisha mentor) or the okiya they belong to that's given the money.
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Originally Posted by MMM
Shomben (meaning "piss") geisha, yujo (prostitutes) and shiroto (maids) were not and are not geisha.
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Whatever. They may not be considered to be 'pure' geishas but they offer a way of entertainment which requires all the same rigid apprenticeship "real" geishas have to go through.