Word: okiya
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...what a story it is. Born in 1950, Iwasaki says she knew by the age of three that she wanted to become a geisha and, at the age of five, left her family and moved for training into an okiya, or geisha household. Years of schooling in dance, music, pouring sake and performing the tea ceremony followed, and at the age of 15 she turned...
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