Image of the Day : Geishas

Geishas

17 Responses to “Image of the Day : Geishas”


  • ..O que os olhos não veem o coração não sente…??será???….
    bjs.
    Mari Raphael.

  • Dear Heart & everybody,
    the remark ‘don’t we all want to learn to do that’, made me smile with…self-comlacency[αυταρέσκεια] and ‘mutual understanding’. I think that we, females, EVES, do not need anyone teach us this ‘art’. It is a ..gift[since we speek also about gifts] we are born with. And, of course, to remember Paulo Coelho’s ‘Eleven Minutes’, those minutes are not the essence of the Path.
    Have a nice week.
    LOVE,
    THELMA

  • How interesting Thelma. I appreciate you sharing this clip so much. The art of seducing a man…oooo… don’t we all want to learn to do that. And as pointed out, not so much, to get him to bed, but to make him feel really good about himself.

  • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Tr_yDdwRQ
    This is a small film about geishas of today. The story of Madame Butterfly is a very sad one. After this beautiful aria, dreaming of the return of his beloved, father of her child. he returns.. married to an American and she gives him their child and she kills herself…
    I made a mistake,the other day, the film I mentioned is “The memoirs of a Geisha”.
    Thank you, my dear Heart, I found the sound track ot the film, you mentioned above. I will try to find it. { I have a passion with the cinema.]
    I am looking forward to seeing our Paulo Coelho’s books on the ‘big screen’ and the music they will ‘dress’them.
    LOVE,
    THELMA

  • Querido, adoro as fotos que você coloca no blog e adoraria ouvir alguns comentários seus sobre os símbolos que elas trazem.
    obrigado por partilhar essas preciosidades.
    de coração, Inês

  • However book or painting of geishas might be good, or masterpiece I do not like concept of geisha. It has nothing to do with prostitution, they are not prostitutes, as someone already said….just they seem so completely unpenetrable under their masks which they carry as painting

  • Os leques são acessórios que dão movimentos bonitos nas danças. Eles alongam os movimentos dando um ar sensual em determinados gestos…
    Bjs.,
    Mari Raphael.

  • at last, chieko put everything into place..geishas are not prostitutes. “Geisha” stands for “artist”..Dancing, playing musical insruments, etc. are all they do…such beautiful creatures, performing beautiful art.

  • or not…she saw him with a glimpse…and gave him his child.

  • Thank you Chieko I read the same about geishas.
    Geishas have always attracted me especially when I was a younger girl…I love the way they are dressed, the way they walk,…they look so sensitive…maybe it has to do with their white faces and little red lips, almost porcelain so fragile. The other side is that a lot of geishas were children when they were sold by their parents to their ‘master’ to learn to dance, sing and be joyful as a cat…so that they are shining as a flower who they are not.

    I do love Madame Butterfly…which goes about surrender and sexual desire. The desire of a man who should be grateful for a girl, woman that waits for him with a definite trust…only…he was too late.

  • i think there seem to be some misunderstanding about geishas. basically, they are not prostitutes. they are talented dancers and musicians. they have patrons for whom they entertain from bottom of their heart. they do not sell sex. there are those who sell sex called yujyo (playgirl). they dress and act differently. well, the line between geishas and yujyo may be blur. but i think both are very intelligent people. love

  • Yes geishas,are so beautiful -but they live such sad lives very true ..and I find that interesting in Italy that it is forbidden to call any prostitue;Maria ,,I gather that it is the reason ..blessings Tania

  • I believe Geishas wear this mask that we were talking about all this week…in order to survive…

    i see that they spy on someone here in this picture..

    Love and Graditude
    Annie

  • Yes, thank you Thelma. Another fantastic movie is ‘Dangerous Beauty’ about a courtesan living in 16th century’s Venice.

    The personal stories of so many prostitutes are very sad, knowing probably the majority of them, was sexually abused as children. And the sad way men use and despise the geishas, in addition to what they already suffered.

    Maria’s story in Eleven Minutes however, has a happy ending, thank god. (I may add, it is forbidden in Italy to name any prostitute; Maria. Guess it is regarded sacrilegious).

  • Um ilustração singela e delicada…
    bjs.,
    Mari Raphael.

  • Today some exotic for us.Nice.Thanks.
    I think all women have something to learn from a geisha.I not envy their destiny,but all we know how charming and interesting they might be.

  • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRhuQWS4tc&feature=related
    Madam Butterfly, best version, by Maria Callas, the Divina.

    We may, all have seen the film, or read the book ‘The story of a Geisha’. Both sad stories, about geishas and their destinies.
    LOVE,
    Thelma

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