Chapter 263 Geisha

Masayoshi Kishimoto and his group drove away from the golf course and came directly to the Hiraku High-end Cuisine Pavilion in Ueno, Taito District.

The owner’s wife not only reserved the best luxury private room, but also personally conducted a reception. On the one hand, this was a familiar customer from an old relationship, and on the other hand, she had some small investment in Hard Gold Capital.

She is a discerning person, once she saw the geisha are early to their own here for a waiting, also means that Kishimoto justice chairman invited guests is extraordinary, absolutely is the kind of high-powered people.

In Japan, geisha are selling their art but not their bodies. If you want to find a woman who sells her body, one is to go directly to a custom store, and the other is to go to a no-materials anei-sho.

Otherwise, it is to utilize the contact methods on some social software or small cards on the Internet. For men, no matter whether they are looking for compensated women or call girls, to put it bluntly, it is whoring.

Geisha in Japan, not only high income, and social status is not low. According to the customary Chinese name, they belong to the performing artists. The reason for this is that they are high-end.

Geisha, in the traditional sense, were not seen as inferior in the past. On the contrary, many families were proud to have their daughters enter the world of art.

In one of Junichiro Tanizaki’s masterpieces, Harukumi, someone sends his own daughter to the main character to learn the koto so that she can become a geisha in the future.

Not only did this indicate that the family was highly educated, but they also had to have enough money to pay for their daughter’s lessons. This idea is less common today, but the Geisha is still regarded as something special.

In fact, it is not easy to become a Geisha. Learning the art, usually starting at the age of 10, is a grueling 5-year program that includes lessons in culture, etiquette, language, decorations, poetry, books, and the qin and se, as well as bowing and pouring sake.

From the age of 16, they can go into the sea as a maiko and then as a geisha until they are 30 years old. When they get older, they can continue to work, but they have to be demoted and can only serve as a companion to the younger, more famous Geisha.

As for the way out of old age, most of them are not very optimistic. The ideal is to marry a rich man and live a stable life, but this is rare.

Some use their skills to run an art school or class, which is also very good. If you have the opportunity to enter the company as an image of Miss, although only a “vase”, can still show the former style. Of course, there are also many people who have become servants, or even fallen into the green house, it is very unfortunate.

The price of hiring a Geisha to attend is not cheap. They are billed from the moment they leave the house. The cab fare for the round trip is an additional cost that is reimbursed on a reimbursement basis.

Geisha’s make-up is strictly regulated, and at first glance they look as pale as a dead person. However, in the traditional Japanese perception and aesthetics, this kind of porcelain doll makeup is beautiful and lovely.

With modern aesthetics to see, perhaps some alternative. In fact, tracing back to the roots of China’s Tang Dynasty period of women, is not also like a similar makeup? The only difference between the two is that one wore kimono and the other wore Tang clothes.

When Masayoshi Kishimoto and the others arrived at the place, they first parked their cars individually, followed by the owner’s wife personally leading them inside the private room. After they sat down one by one with their legs crossed, the owner’s wife instructed the men to hurry up and serve the food.

The Geisha entered the private room and began their performance. Masayoshi Kishimoto was able to tell from the looks of Ryuichi Kitano and General Director Pachinko that they were really into this kind of thing, and were not just pretending to be elegant.

If you think about it a little bit, it’s easy to understand. The two of them experienced the golden thirty years of the Japanese economy, especially in the heyday of the 1980s, the Japanese people are not only satisfied with what to travel abroad and other pastimes, but also from top to bottom of the whole of the extravagant fighting for the rich social atmosphere.

The use of expensive gold leaf for food was a small thing. The big one is when big companies hire Geisha to act as a front, so that they can attack their customers.

When rich people invite people to dinner, anything with three Michelin stars is no big deal. The only meal that is high class is the one in which a famous Geisha is hired to perform and accompany the rich.

Ryuichi Kitano and Mr. Pachinko were deeply influenced by that kind of atmosphere. This is just like the first group of rich people in China.

In their minds, it didn’t matter how good or how old a Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, or Patek Philippe was. They only recognize Rolex.

The reason why there will be this strange phenomenon lies in the fact that whether they are a child, or young, in the provincial city, the magic city, the capital and other big cities in the most upscale department stores to see the most expensive table is 800 yuan a piece of Rolex.

What is the concept of 800 yuan? At that time, the salary of an average worker in mainland China was only twenty dollars, ten dollars, or even a few dollars.

Therefore, the watch at that time represented one of the three revolutions in a marriage. A man was able to wear a watch, but only a domestic watch, even if he was wearing a long shirt, he would still intentionally show his watch outside.

Not only that, but a watch is not something that can be bought with money. Before buying a watch, one had to have a watch ticket. In mainland China at that time, those who could afford to wear a watch were people with status and position in society.

A young man like Masayoshi Kishimoto naturally disliked things like Geisha. His greatest feeling when he watched the Geisha’s performance was that it had a certain hypnotic effect.

He himself was too embarrassed to yawn or even doze off. He took advantage of people not paying attention, but also twisted his thigh to refresh himself.

Especially when the Geisha played the shamisen, similar to the Chinese three-stringed zither. His whole being felt bad. Even if he likes to be quiet, but also like the Western-style kind of petty mood, a cup of coffee on the table, a book in his hand, lazily sitting on top of the chair for reading.

“This Geisha is no more famous than the Kyoto Geisha. However, our Edo (Tokyo’s old name) Geisha also has its own characteristics.” Kitano Ryuichi lamented.

“Kyoto Geisha belongs to the Kansai school, while Edo Geisha belongs to the Kanto school. Both are naturally different and have their own characteristics.” General President Pachinko said with interest.

“These would be too boring for the young people of today. What they like at the moment is rock music. That grandson of mine makes a mess inside his home all day long to keep people from getting clean. He even started some kind of band group with other people inside the school.” Kitano Ryuichi shook his head.

“These good things handed down from the old ancestors are indeed unpopular with today’s youth. When some of us old timers die, our treasures will perish along with them.” General President Pachinko said worriedly.

Kishimoto Masayoshi listened to the two Japanese old men’s accents, which were exactly the same as those of many old men in China.

The so-called good things like what Beijing Opera, what this, what that, and so on, really didn’t make the young people nowadays feel energized at all, and didn’t feel how elegant it was.