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Updated: June 1, 2025
We went last night; the dancing is much more mechanical posturing than the theater dancing, or than the little geisha dance we saw at Nara, but the color combinations and the way they handled the scenery were wonderful. There were eight very different scenes and it didn't take more than a minute to make any change.
"So much for the lady with the toy dog.... So much for the great adventure.... Here you sit." However, in the morning, at the station, his eye had been caught by a poster with large letters: "First Performance of 'The Geisha." He remembered that and went to the theatre. "It is quite possible she will go to the first performance," he thought.
He sat on the bed, which was covered by a cheap grey blanket, such as one sees in hospitals, and he taunted himself in his vexation: "So much for the lady with the dog . . . so much for the adventure . . . . You're in a nice fix. . . ." That morning at the station a poster in large letters had caught his eye. "The Geisha" was to be performed for the first time.
"Oh, I'm so glad I came down!" she breathed contentedly. "'Glad!" Jim echoed soberly. "God! You don't know what it meant to me to look up and see my little Geisha coming in. I was going crazy, I think!" "Ah, Jimmy, why do you?" she coaxed, one slender arm about his neck. "I don't know," he said thoughtfully. "Made that way, I guess!"
The group nearest the entrance, representing two men playing samisen and two geisha dancing, seemed to me without excuse for being, until Kinjuro had translated a little placard before it, announcing that one of the figures was a living person. We watched in vain for a wink or palpitation. Suddenly one of the musicians laughed aloud, shook his head, and began to play and sing.
To win any renown in her profession, a geisha must be pretty or very clever; and the famous ones are usually both, having been selected at a very early age by their trainers according to the promise of such qualities Even the commoner class of singing-girls must have some charm in their best years, if only that beaute du diable which inspired the Japanese proverb that even a devil is pretty at eighteen . But Kimiko was much more than pretty.
Her neck was no bigger than a gripman's wrist and she had a nose that stood right out from her face almost an eighth of an inch. Her eyes were set on the bias and she was painted more colors than a bandwagon. I said, 'If this is the champion geisha, take me back to the land of the chorus girl. And in China! Listen!
Asako asked her cousin. "The geisha dance, because they are paid," said Sadako primly. Her pose was no longer cordial and sympathetic. She set herself up as mentor to this young savage, who did not know the usages of civilized society. "No, not like that," said the girl from England; "but dancing among yourselves with your men friends." "Oh, no, that would not be nice at all.
But all the while you must watch her bright eyes and supple hands. These are pretty; and if you suffer yourself, just for one fraction of a second, to think how pretty they are, you are bewitched and vanquished. Notwithstanding all this apparent comradeship, a certain rigid decorum between guest and geisha is invariably preserved at a Japanese banquet.
We are about to perform La Geisha, the magnificent English operetta. Walk right in! Walk right in!" While the mother was dancing with the Neapolitan in the ball-room, the children were amusing themselves thus alone. "The truth is that our civilization is an absurdity. Even the children go mad," thought Caesar, and took refuge in his room.
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