Word: uma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Committee of Fourteen, thought tolerant Japanese last week, probably had in mind not the Geisha, but the Joro. A Japanese male of lowest estate, called an Uma or "horse" imparts in a few moments to the despised Joro such little learning as she, coarse and unfit for Geishahood, is thought to require...
...joro, girls deemed unworthy of such complicated training, are perfunctorily instructed by an uma.† Both geisha and joro girls are purchased in their ^eens from impoverished parents, about $500 being the lowest price deemed appropriate for a girl of geisha calibre. The geisha then technically rents an apartment from her purchaser, who advances her credit wherewith to keep up her establishment. By this subterfuge, the geisha-house owners remain legally mere landlords. Actually they hold the geisha girls who are in their debt as security until they earn enough to pay off the credits extended them. Though in many...