Geisha dance

Yesterday Blaine took Lucinda to a neat cultural performance: the annual "Azuma Odori" geisha dance performances at Shinbashi Enbujo Theatre in Ginza. Lucinda found it to be visually and emotionally very interesting.

Here's Blaine's short video of their day out. (Lucinda was also interested in her newly-loose tooth.)



Geisha are entertainers who are well-versed in Japan's cultural arts; they typically peform for businessmen in tea houses. They dance, sing, and play games with clients, but they are not prostitutes. A story in the Mainichi Daily News about two of the dancers (age 19 and 20), who are apprentice geisha, gives a good sense of what they do for a living.