TOKYO — Tsumami kanzashi are Japanese hair ornaments that were worn by geisha and young daughters of the nobility in a tradition dating back hundreds of years. They’re complex and gorgeous, and the ...

The discreet, refined and graceful world of the Japanese geisha has been turned upside-down by a rebellion: A group of apprentice geisha, or maiko, have accused their training house of cruelty and set ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she grew older. In the process, she revived and protected not only her ...

KYOTO (Reuters) - Just eight years ago, Komomo was a Japanese teenager living in Beijing, riding her bicycle around the city and playing pool with her friends on weekends. Sign up here. Now she is a ...

Westerners think they know all about geishas, those delicate Japanese women with their virgin milky white faces accented by a jarring pop of red lipstick, their feet sitting in clacking wooden sandals ...

Take a step back into old Japan with some geisha dances and rakugo, the traditional form of comic storytelling that flourished among Edo's merchant classes. Pieces like the Edo-era vaudeville ...

Solid, green and iridescent, it bears little resemblance to a standard lipstick. But for hundreds of years, Japan's geisha would never leave home without dipping a wet brush into a natural compound ...