Comments on: Geisha http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/geisha.html Japanese culture from a bemused foreign perspective Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:41:51 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Claire http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/geisha.html/comment-page-1#comment-684 Claire Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:36:36 +0000 http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/geisha.html#comment-684 You mean the red collar of the Maiko. And the changing of the collar is a completely separate ceremony to mizuage. And no, mizuage did exist, but was a very secret affair. The "movie" was originally a book, written by an author with extensive research into the geisha lifestyle. You mean the red collar of the Maiko. And the changing of the collar is a completely separate ceremony to mizuage.

And no, mizuage did exist, but was a very secret affair. The “movie” was originally a book, written by an author with extensive research into the geisha lifestyle.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/geisha.html/comment-page-1#comment-569 Patrick Mon, 18 May 2009 02:58:23 +0000 http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/geisha.html#comment-569 The mizuage actually is a coming of age ceremony in which the girl's topknot is cut off to allow for the traditional ofuku hairstyle, and she was allowed to wear the white collar of a true geisha and discard the apprentice's white collar. The selling of the girls' virginity was an artistic license made up for the movie. One of the sources for the movie has blown the whistle on the hoax. The mizuage actually is a coming of age ceremony in which the girl’s topknot is cut off to allow for the traditional ofuku hairstyle, and she was allowed to wear the white collar of a true geisha and discard the apprentice’s white collar.

The selling of the girls’ virginity was an artistic license made up for the movie. One of the sources for the movie has blown the whistle on the hoax.

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