He achieved world renown with his 1984 photograph Afghan Girl, a striking depiction of a young refugee with mesmerizing green eyes. The image first appeared on the June 1985 issue of National ...
KYOTO--A star geisha from Gion-Kobu ... She appeared on various TV shows and once even served as a poster girl for the Tourism Authority of Thailand. “I was so lucky with human connections ...
In this episode, we visit Kyoto Prefecture, the old capital of Japan, and enter the world of geiko. Geiko, meaning "a girl of the arts," is how geisha are referred to in Kyoto.
Young girls who aspired to become ... geishas remain a rare but cherished part of Japanese culture, mainly found in cities ...
In Kyoto, tourists flock to the picturesque Gion district to glimpse Geisha clip-clopping along ... The warnings are written in three languages: Japanese, English and Chinese.
Their number began shrinking after Japan’s rapid postwar economic ... of going to the city to learn the ways of the geisha. But most girls in Kyoto's hanamachi areas start training right after ...
Local officials in Japan’s popular Geisha district in Kyoto will shut off access to “paparazzi” tourists who harass and ...
Gion, Japan's popular geisha district in Kyoto, will be barring tourists from entering certain alleys, the news agency AFP reported on Friday. Isokazu Ota, an executive member of the Gion district ...