maiko

• “After the mizuage ceremony, the next major rite of passage in the life of a maiko is her erikae ceremony, or “turning of the collar.””

  Simon & Schuster: Geisha, A Life

• “One type of geiko, famed throughout the world as the symbol of Kyoto, is the young dancer known as a maiko, or “woman of dance.””

  Simon & Schuster: Geisha, A Life

• “Entrepreneurial trainee geisha, called maiko, were honing their craft at the outdoor venues, where for 530 yen (six dollars) patrons get a beer and a chance to chat with the kimono-clad young women before watching them perform traditional dances, The Daily”

  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

• “(530 yen) cost of a beer, visitors can raise toasts and make conversation with trainee geisha, called maiko, before they perform nightly traditional Kyotan dances known as "kyomai" on a special beer garden stage.”

  News On Japan

• “A '' maiko '' apprentice geisha brought a cup of tea and placed it in front of a guest.”

  Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• “When I first got here, on my first trip to Kyoto, I saw a couple maiko apprentice geisha, and blogged about wondering if a geisha could be feminist.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “The dance is put on by a dance school that trains (some of) the geiko (the Kyoto dialect word for geisha) and maiko of the Gion district of Kyoto.”

  Dance of the Capital

• “A former maiko-turned-geisha about 10 years ago, now living in Tokyo:”

  A Geisha and a Feminist Walk into a Bar

• “One eighty-five-year-old client told the proprietor of a studio, that she had adored the maiko the geisha in training since girlhood and wanted to try dressing up as one before she died.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kickboxing Geishas

• “I ended my career as a maiko with as much ambivalence as I had begun it, but for different reasons.”

  Simon & Schuster: Geisha, A Life

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