measure-markers

Updated: July 23, 2025

With his name is associated the origin of the shirabyoshi, or "white measure-markers" girls clad in white, who, by posture and gesture, beat time to music, and, in after ages, became the celebrated geisha of Japan.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era