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Throughout Nippon the tactful, fluttering geisha- and her lusty sister the joro have given rise at last to a political issue between the Kenseikai (Conservative Party) of Premier Wakatsuki and his erst- while† supporters, the Seiyuhonto (True Friends Party). The pub- licists of these embattled partisans, in their effort to cast blame for the Yoshiwara of Tokyo upon their opponents, have stirred the Japan- ese press to investigate the seat of responsibility for such resorts of incontinence throughout the Empire. Despatches reported last week that so many statesmen of both the Government Party and the opposition have been found...
Broad, clean, tree-planted streets diverge from the Omon (Great Gate), near which stands a monument (TIME, July 26) to the 730 geisha and joro girls who perished during the earthquake. Within the quarter dwell in comparative luxury the 3,000 girls who are envied of their 50,000 lesser imitators throughout Japan...
Yoshiwara Life. Seen from within, the life of the quarter does not present the roseate aspect visible to chance Occidental visitors. The geisha must undergo a lengthy educational process during which they are taught to dance, sing, and play the long necked unmelodious samisen. Further instruction renders them expert in all the formal minutiae of welcoming, supping with, attending, and bidding good-bye to their clients...
Saluted by beaming policemen, chattering lightheartedly, fluttering in their bright kimonas like iridescent butterflies, 2,000 geisha girls flocked last week to the spacious park of their famed Yoshiwara quarter in Tokyo...
...bronze image of Benten-sama, complacent "Goddess of Mercy," was unveiled. For generations to come it will remind Japanese, whose thoughts might otherwise be bent too much on pleasure, that 730 geisha girls were killed at Tokyo by the earthquake...