Comments on: An Interview With Komomo http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/an-interview-with-komomo/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Megumi http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/an-interview-with-komomo/comment-page-1/#comment-149056 Megumi Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:24:33 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1813#comment-149056 @Kreuzfahrten No! In not way a Geisha is a noble-whore, they are women who are trained in the art of converstation, dance, music, tea ceremony etc. The idea that Geisha are whores came after the war when Americans were in Japan who did go to prostitutes and they called them Geisha cause they looked similar to the real geisha. That is how the misunderstand came alive that Geisha are the same as noble-whores. However in the old days Tayuu and Orian were indeed prositutes in Japan, only a man who would like to share the bed with one would have to spend a fortune persuing her and then she could even refuse to do so. @Kreuzfahrten

No! In not way a Geisha is a noble-whore, they are women who are trained in the art of converstation, dance, music, tea ceremony etc.

The idea that Geisha are whores came after the war when Americans were in Japan who did go to prostitutes and they called them Geisha cause they looked similar to the real geisha.
That is how the misunderstand came alive that Geisha are the same as noble-whores.

However in the old days Tayuu and Orian were indeed prositutes in Japan, only a man who would like to share the bed with one would have to spend a fortune persuing her and then she could even refuse to do so.

]]> By: Kreuzfahrten http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/an-interview-with-komomo/comment-page-1/#comment-147200 Kreuzfahrten Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:30:30 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1813#comment-147200 I don´t want to offend anybody, but isn´t a Geisha nothing else than a noble-whore? Or what did I get wrong, when I read the book? I don´t want to offend anybody, but isn´t a Geisha nothing else than a noble-whore? Or what did I get wrong, when I read the book?

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