Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together and no one worries. This little flat piece of metal is wonderful. It gives us privacy and security." Adds waspish Banker Kano: "The key will emancipate wives. Their husbands will now have no good excuse for leaving them at home and going off alone to the geisha houses...
...annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders to spend it as conspicuously as possible. The object: to achieve the utmost face and to give the impression that Japanese newspapers were doing just great...
Music "Hunter Lomax has recorded Pygmies in the Middle Congo, basket weavers in France, geishas in Japan, Saturday night warblers in English pubs (but avoided Wales, which is "a tragedy; everything is Methodist hymns and Handel"). He has mapped the world folk-song families, found surprising links between them. The pinch-voiced, samisen-playing geisha finds an echo in the Spanish mountain-farm laborer thumping a ximbomba drum; "the lonesome, death-ridden American cowboy is a blood cousin to the raga singer in India...
During the week's uproar. President Sukarno seemed the most relaxed Indonesian. In Tokyo, on the last leg of a jaunt through Asia, he went with his staff to a geisha party at the Tskuki No lye (House of the Moon) and renewed a fond acquaintance with a pretty, 29-year-old geisha named Keiko Isozaki, whom he had known during World War II in the Japanese-occupied Celebes where she was entertaining the Japanese troops and he was a Japanese supporter. Next day, Sukarno's Imperial Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon...
...combined fantasy and perspective with superb brushwork and a cautious use of color that in many ways surpass his Chinese models. No such inhibitions bothered Sin Yun-pok (see overleaf), whose sumptuous scenes were often shocking to his contemporaries. One such scene of a kisaeng (geisha) party, with dancing girls performing on mats out of doors to the music of the hatted orchestra, is something no Korean gentlewoman could have witnessed. But to Westerners, it gives an intimate view of Korean gentry, alive with the delights and pleasures of their peaceful 18th century life...