Then, she travels to Kyoto where the proprietress of the Hanafusa Okiya of Miyagawacho has kindly agreed to take her in for a week of training. Onsen Geisha have the exact same artistic qualifications as other Geisha and also do not sell sex in exchange for money. To be fair, I have to say that I did find the portrayal of Onsen Geisha a bit questionable and condescending, because they are portrayed to be more “loose” than other Geisha, which is not true. This documentary sounds questionable, but it is quite harmless and actually enjoyable.Īt first, Dawn Porter visits Onsen Geisha with the help of a translator and joins them at an ozashiki. This is a documentary by the Irish journalist Dawn Porter, who tests a series of “the most extreme ways women find love and are with men”. Under the name of “Geisha Show” on Youtube (english): part 1: part 2: part 3: part 4: part 5: Under the name of “Dawn Porter wird Geisha” (Dawn Porter becomes a Geisha) on Youtube (german): It was the first documentary on Geisha I ever watched and is a good documentary to begin your studies with.
It contains interviews with then-Maiko Umechika (Umeno Okiya of Kamishichiken, now a Geiko), Ichisue (retired Geiko of Ichi Okiya of Kamishichiken), Ichiyu (retired Maiko of Ichi Okiya of Kamishichiken) and Katsuno (retired Geiko of Odamoto Okiya of Gion Kobu and bar-proprietress) and informs about the origin of Geisha, the mizuage ceremony, why people today are still fascinated by Geisha-culture and talks about its’ decline. This documentary was produced by the French-German tv-channel Arte. Geisha, le crepuscule des fleurs (Geisha - flower of dawn) (French): Geisha - Blume der Dämmerung (Geisha - Flower of dawn) (German) : part 1: part 2: part 3: part 4: If you have any documentary, long or short, you want to add, please tell me! I’ll put a list of all Geisha-related documentaries I could find here, with it’s languages in brackits (some of the documentaries I’ll list are in German, because German is my mother-tongue). There aren’t that many documentaries about Geisha, but I managed to find a few over the last year when I started learning about Geisha myself. If you are new to the Geisha-world and you want to start learning about it, documentaries are a great way to start!
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