Kyoto, Japan — Every move Komomo makes is rooted in Japanese ritual. The way her body sinks to kneel, or how she uses just the fingertips of her right hand to slide open the wood-framed Japanese doors ...

Asian Art Museum Night of the Geisha gala dinner-dance celebrates the opening of "Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile," the Asian's exhibition about the cultural perceptions of this uniquely Japanese ...

Geisha and maiko (teenage apprentices training to become geisha) are women who perform Japanese traditional arts such as singing, dancing and playing instruments to entertain customers while they dine ...

KYOTO, Japan — The night began with Champagne and French wine in the Old World, wooden-framed home of a friend of Akiko Fukai, Japan’s leading dress historian and curator, whose Kyoto Costume ...

Tourists will be banned from entering certain streets in Kyoto's famous geisha district after a surge in street performers being harassed and assaulted. Residents of the Japanese city have long ...

For most people, the word "geisha" conjures visions of Kyoto's Gion district. But there is another major geisha centre, one that even many Japanese don't know. The dancer glides noiselessly across the ...

Colorful, sharp-edged Japanese anime projected on a dining room wall at Geisha has nothing on the crowd that jams this white-hot newcomer seven nights a week. Its name suggests serene seduction, but ...

Karuizawa’s Geisha Series, a collection of highly sought-after Japanese whiskies, pays homage to both the artistry of geisha and the legacy of the once-defunct but now "reopened" Karuizawa Distillery.

Of all thing things the city does with your tax dollars — writing unnecessary tickets, letting workers drink and go to strip clubs, sending the mayor to Washington every other week — this has to be ...