The pretty painted face of Japanese patriarchy' The Japanese word "geisha" literally means "art person". They are traditional Japanese female entertainers who are skilled in arts such as classical ...

"Celine Hoshino has two faces, both delicately romantic, both incredibly passionate..." "She looks like a watercolor painting of a gold-skin Geisha, hauntingly beautiful. On the one side ...

Writing in The Observer in 2001, Barbara Ellen argued that the geisha "is, and has always been, the pretty painted face of Japanese patriarchy". And "no amount of waffle" about "things that make ...