Realistic Version Of "Geisha Memoirs"

Japan's geisha industry's first foreign face in four hundred years, an Australian Australian doctor's experience in three years

Geisha, like Bushido, sushi and cherry blossoms, is regarded as a symbol of Japanese culture.

The geisha industry with 400 years of history has been covered with a veil of mystery. For foreigners, it has always been faced with a "foreign country inaccessible" face.

However, there is an Australian female doctor who has stepped into this mysterious field, and has made a great effort in it.

Her name is Fiona Graham (Fiona Graham). She has been a Geisha in Japan for three years, and will continue.

He has been in Japan for 10 years, and Oxford doctoral student has done the movie.

Fiona Graham, who was born and raised in Melbourne, was fortunate enough to be an exchange student to study in Japan for a year when he was 15 years old.

Like most teenagers, she has an ardent desire for the unknown world. She decided to seize this opportunity to embark on her study journey in Japan.

"At that time, I was only excited about stepping into the unknown land, but not really interested in Japanese culture!" she smiled, recalling.

Because of such a good first impression, Graham had a strong interest in Japan and its culture.

After graduating from high school, she became the first western female student in Keio University, Japan, where she studied psychology.

She spent 10 years in Japan, and then she went to University of Oxford to pursue a doctorate degree in social anthropology, but her research is still in the direction of Japanese culture.

In 2005, the movie "geisha memoirs" was released in the world. This film has brought the western world's interest in geisha to a new height.

But after watching the movie, Graham, who loved Japanese culture, found it hard to accept.

She found that the film portrayed a lot of sex related content.

But with Graham's experience in Japan for ten years, she knows that the life of geisha is not so.

"Westerners have misunderstood the image of geisha very much. They regard it as such a woman: completely yielding to the will of men, without their own thoughts, and following their orders with all their heart.

But in fact it is the opposite.

Geisha are women who work independently.

They live by artistic performance rather than their own flesh. "

In order to let more westerners understand this fact, she had a bold idea: she tried to be a Geisha herself, and then filmed her own experience into a documentary.

After graduating from Oxford, Graham came to the shallow grass Temple area in Tokyo, Japan. She decided to start her geisha career here.

Negotiation was granted only in June.

Learn to be a teacher and pay tribute to more than 100 predecessors.

In the past four hundred years, the geisha industry in Japan has never accepted foreign faces.

So it is not easy for Graham to be accepted.

Graham had been negotiating with the local officials for 6 months. Luckily, she finally got a support from a "mother" who was quite authoritative in geisha circles.

The "geisha Mama" gave Graham an artistic title called "yarn luck". In Japanese, it means "pparent happiness".

Geisha learning is a long and rigorous process.

The probationary geisha from 13 to 19 has four to five years of apprenticeship, and the geisha who is 20 years old must finish all the basic courses in 12 months.

In April 2007, he began to receive systematic geisha training, including culture, etiquette, language, decoration, poetry and calligraphy, and piano training.

A good Geisha, with every movement and every movement, should have elegant and noble demeanour, and special training should be made in the motions of bowing and pouring.

There is even a training program aimed at eating "hot tofu", which requires no noise and tofu can not touch lip gloss.

For yarn, the most difficult part of training is to learn the posture of kneeling.

"A party will last for at least two hours, and you will have to sit for so long. Even if your legs are numb, you can't get used to it, but you can only get used to it as soon as possible.

An older sister told me that even a kilogram can make this sitting worse, so I try to lose weight and then I feel better.

Every geisha must have his own skills.

The best choice is to play the bamboo flute.

What makes her feel helpless is that "geisha mommy" seems to have no interest in any modern invention, such as photocopiers.

She will not give you a printed musical score, all rhythms must be listened carefully with your own ears, and then rote memorized.

One year is longer than that of yarn.

Luckily, he was sent to school three weeks in advance. In December 19, 2007, Graham made his first public appearance.

She painted her face and neck white, wearing a high wig bun, and wearing a gray blue kimono and a wide waistband worth $more than 20000.

Then he took a rickshaw and walked around the geisha area to pay tribute to more than one hundred predecessors as a new professional geisha.

So far, the first foreign geisha was officially born in Japanese history.

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Showing body curves is vulgar.

After the first performance of Geisha, they became independent freelancers, earning twenty thousand dollars a month, 8 times the average monthly salary of ordinary Japanese white-collar workers.

She did not tell reporters how much she could earn in a month.

But we know that she owns more than 20 kimono and each piece has a value of not less than 5000 dollars.

Although it is the face of Westerners, luckily, the western character of yarn is not so obvious.

Her height of 168 centimeters is not the highest in the geisha district.

The color of her eyes is very special, but she can cover them with black contact lenses.

Near the majestic Red Gate of the shallow grass Temple, a group of Japanese women tourists are wearing fancy and kimono. This is a new trend.

They will add lace and wrinkles, and wear gorgeous jewelry.

"If they don't wear underwear, senior geisha will feel that this is a traditional offence."

With a slight Australian accent in his gentle voice, "I wear four layers of underwear under the kimono.

Showing the female body curve is considered vulgar in the elegant geisha world.

Multi layer underwear and silk bandage can ensure a straight and straight body shape. "

She did not like the discussion of whether she was an outsider.

"My Western background has nothing to do with my daily work and life. I will connect my actions with customs as well as other people."

For example, at the time of the meeting, as the second oldest geisha of shrub grass, she had to kneel down to salute her 44 geisha sisters, though most of them were actually younger than her.

"I can't mess up the order, otherwise I will be severely reprimanded."

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To a great extent, she realized her original desire: through her own experience, more Westerners could understand geisha culture.

She registered Twitter account and had her own personal website to share her experience with many people on this platform.

Many western girls wrote her mail to express their desire to become a Geisha.

And she will tell these girls that becoming geisha is not as simple as they think.

"Wearing a dancer doesn't mean you can dance.

Geisha is also like this. We are artists.

To a large extent, yarn has also corrected the misunderstanding of Geisha in western society: geisha is not a prostitute.

"The relationship between geisha and sex came into being in nineteenth Century.

At that time, the most advanced geisha usually had a wealthy male donor named Danna.

Usually he is married and can afford his geisha's kimono, wig and other expenses.

The donor still exists today, but I do not have a Danna myself.

"Even if I have, I have no obligation to go to bed with him," said yarn. "There are geisha and guests who have had a romantic history, but this is a case, just like any other work."

He has been a Geisha for three years and will continue to do so.

What should geisha do?

Don't make noise or touch lip gloss to eat "hot tofu".

You can kneel for more than two hours. To make yourself feel better, you should try to lose weight.

To learn music without music is to rely on ears.

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How much money can a Geisha Earn:

It can earn twenty thousand dollars a month, which is 8 times the average monthly salary of ordinary Japanese white-collar workers.

Admission is still a mobile scourge.

When the yarn passed happily through the narrow and crowded street leading to Tokyo's shallow grass Temple, she attracted the attention of businessmen and old Japanese women on the street.

From her round bun to her solo Japanese thick bottom socks, yarn luck or anthropologist Fiona Graham shows pure style of geisha. Whenever she walks, her admirers will send the same praise: Kirei Desu ne - she is beautiful.

But he said, "geisha takes a lifetime to perfect itself.

I have just started. Compared with other versatile geisha sisters, I am still a mobile scourge.