Mukôjima Geisha Manten (万てん) in April 2018. Manten became a Geisha in 2010 and was one of the first Hangyoku I knew by name.

Tokushima Maiko Anna 杏奈 with Mitsuki 美月, ~April 2015.

Maiko Anna and Geiko Azusa of Tokushima, ~ April 2015.

Src: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/2GqDCAtQsD/ https://www.instagram.com/p/0xSyhONQon/

The Yokohama Geigi website has been updated this April with two new portraits: Yûtsuki 結月 (she has been working with the Yokohama Geigi since autumn last year already) and Hamayû はまゆう (she was among the new faces shown in February). Both are in the "Hamakko" category, which is a unique term in Yokohama for Geigi apprentices like Maiko or Hangyoku. From what I have obseved, they don't have any visual characteristics to set them apart from the fully fledged Geigi. With this update, it seems that Kanayuki 叶雪 (first seen October 2023) has retired. There are now seven Geigi and three Hamakko in Yokohama. https://geigi.yokohama/cast

New Geigi in Yokohama

In this instagram post from 24. Feb 24, it's mentioned that the amount of Yokohama Geigi is growing. Judging from the group photo, it seems that there are 2-4 new and perhaps one returning Geigi. I'm curious what their names are!

Koyuzu 小由寿 from Yumenoya Okiya in Mukojima debuted on 23. April 2024, after being a Minarai for around four months. Her Furisode features butterflies 蝶, wisteria 藤, plum blossoms 梅, cherry blossoms 桜, pine trees 松, waves 波 and tortoise shell 亀甲. Congratulations to your debut!

hii! it's me again! i hope it's not too much of a pain again... but could you show on google maps where kanazawa's hanamachi are?

Hello! Since Kanazawa's Hanamachi don't have the same name as the administrative units they are in, we will have to do with less precise locations. Bus stop Nishi chayagai: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8360989048 Street Kazuemachi: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/523974037 Place of interest Higashi chayagai: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2146147848

Maiko Yachiyo with branches of Plum Blossom (1900) “Yachiyo was a famous Geiko (Geisha) from Osaka, considered one of only three Meigi (talented or beautiful geisha) of the Meiji period (1868-1912). She became a Maiko (Apprentice Geisha) with the Tonda geisha house at the age of thirteen. During the Meiji period girls usually became a Geiko (Geisha) around the age of fifteen or sixteen.”(source) A YouTube video of Yachiyo in 1904.

She is likely a Maiko from Osaka (unlikely she's from Kyoto, and Osaka Maiko were popular photo models from the late Meiji era until after the war) and the photo was taken in the time period from early December to mid-March (Yukimochi kimono motif).

Geisha; shashin print by Kōzaburō Tamamura, c1890 |© National Trust for Scotland, Broughton House & Garden [handcolored color-corrected]

And another update: Yukinoe's Minarai is called Temari, her debut is planned for June 2024. https://www.instagram.com/yukinoe.hachioji/p/C57XmWTL0vT/

Setsubun in Hachioji - possible new Geisha and Hangyoku Hachioji_Odori_Official shared a picture of the Hachioji Geisha performing for Setsubun on instagram: In the back row, second from left, you can see a new face. I'm curious if she is a new Geisha? In the front row, second from right, there's a Minarai/Hangyoku. Teruha posted about her in her instagram stories in January, suggesting she might be from Yukinoe Okiya as well.

Pocchiri/Obidome worn by Tokyo Hangyoku Technically, Hangyoku in every of Tokyo's Geisha districts can wear Pocchiri, but not everywhere good pictures or any pictures at all are available. Those you can see here are worn by the Hangyoku of Mukojima, Asakusa, Kagurazaka, Akasaka and Hachioji. Some of them look like those we're used to from Kyoto Maiko, some look completely different! As for the Maiko working in the other Kagai: Yoshi-cho and Oi/Omori Hangyoku can wear Pocchiri too (but no good pictures are available). Opposed to that, I've never seen a Shinbashi Hangyoku wear Pocchiri. Picture sources 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10 (?)|11|12|13 (?)|14|15 (?)|16|17 (?)|18 (no longer online)|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26 (?)|27|28|29 (no longer online)|30|31|32|33|34|35|36+37|38 (no longer online)|39

More natori news from Hachioji

Seika (成華, debuted around 2013) became a natori of the Kasuga (春日) school of Kouta, receiving the name Toyoshibashûyukika or Toyoshibashûyukihana (とよ芝洲ゆき華) from her master and Okiya Okasan Megumi (めぐみ), who is Kasuga Toyoshibashûyuki (とよ芝洲ゆき). Hachioji Geisha practice the following schools/styles: Fujima (藤間) for dance, Fukuhara (福原) for narimono, and Kasuga (春日) for Kouta.

I follow Teruha from Hachioji on Instagram. What can you tell me about her and the Hachioji kagai? Please include the dance school they train under. Thank you.

Teruha debuted in 2018 as a hangyoku and became a full geisha in 2020. Hachioji itself is actually located just outside of Tokyo, so it's not counted as one of the rokkagai (6 kagai), but it still has a decently large geisha population for such a small area (there's currently 15 active geisha there). They learn the Fujima style of dance, just like Gion Higashi does ^^

New Hangyoku in Mukojima - Miwa 美羽

Instead of posting some useless maps, let me send you links to OSM directly: Rokkagai Mukojima https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17351267 Shinbashi https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8421157 Asakusa https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9046136 Akasaka https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8421158 Kagurazaka https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17143205 (seems Yoshi-cho isn't an official administrative unit, I couldn't find it on OSM) Other Hanamachi Maruyama-cho https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17022583 Oi https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17015455 Fukagawa https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17004711 (more precise: the Ryotei are located in Monzen-Nakachô 門前仲町https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17007589) Former Hanamachi Arakicho https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17086966 Kameido https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/16929047 Nihonbashi https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/16170332 Dogenzaka https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/17022582

hii!! i was wondering if you knew where on google maps these tokyo districts are: mukojima, shinbashi, asakusa, akasaka?? tyssmm 🩷

They should roughly come up if you search for them with their Kanji (like "Akasaka, Tokyo").

I've made some maps on that topic with OSM. If I don't forget about it, I'll add them to this post once back at my own PC in 2-3 days, so you can check if our results add up!

hii!! i was wondering if you knew where on google maps these tokyo districts are: mukojima, shinbashi, asakusa, akasaka?? tyssmm 🩷

They should roughly come up if you search for them with their Kanji (like "Akasaka, Tokyo").

I've made some maps on that topic with OSM. If I don't forget about it, I'll add them to this post once back at my own PC in 2-3 days, so you can check if our results add up! see reblog