Maiko
Maiko (舞妓) is an apprentice geiko (not exactly same as geisha) in Kyoto, western Japan. Their jobs consist of performing songs, dances, and playing the shamisen or the koto (traditional Japanese instruments) for visitors during feasts. Maiko are usually aged 15 to 20 years old and become geiko after learning how to dance the traditional kyomai dances, play the shamisen, and learning Kyō-kotoba (dialect of Kyoto), regardless of their origins.
Origin
Maiko originated from women who served green tea and dango (Japanese dumpling made from rice flour) to people who visited the Kitano Tenman-gū or Yasaka Shrine (these are the two of the famous shrines in Kyoto) at teahouses in the temple town about 300 years ago.
At first, women served only green tea and dango, but they gradually started to perform songs and dances for visitors.
Appearance
Hair
During their career a maiko will wear different kinds of nihongami (Japanese traditional hairstyles) depending on rank, formality and occasion. They decorate their hairstyles with seasonal kanzashi (traditional hair ornaments). Maiko, unlike geiko, use their own hair and not wigs. They go to the nihongami hairdresser once a week, meaning that they have to sleep on a takamakura (wooden block with a pillow) in order to maintain it.
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'Maiko' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Game Companion (2014)
Actors: David Mathews (actor), Jeff James Monson (director), Hannah Ryan (actress), Hannah Ryan (actor), Erin Rooke (miscellaneous crew), Erin Rooke (actor), Brian Morelan (writer), Brian Morelan (director), Brian Morelan (editor), Lila Parks (actor), Leon Potter (actor), Lila Parks (producer), Ryan Martin (miscellaneous crew), Leon Potter (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Martin (actor),
Plot: Thirty-something Bob lives downstairs in his mom's house, works in fast food and has one friend. His greatest accomplishment is making it to master in a fighter-style video game, permitting him a game companion, Kimiko, which turns out to be real. Kimiko is impressed with Bob as 'great warrior', but when she starts to discover he is not very important in his own world, her enthusiasm fades.
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Short,Grave Halloween (2013)
Actors: Lisa M. Hansen (producer), Hiro Kanagawa (actor), Breanne Hartley (miscellaneous crew), Luke Bradshaw (miscellaneous crew), Tom Berry (producer), Nicole Reid (miscellaneous crew), Kevan Ohtsji (actor), Tanya Lipke (costume designer), Steven R. Monroe (director), Kirk Renard (miscellaneous crew), Christopher A. Smith (editor), Jeffrey Ballard (actor), David Sanderson (miscellaneous crew), Graham Wardle (actor), Campbell Watson (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Horror,Tsuribaka Nisshi 18 (2007)
Actors: Yuriko Hoshi (actress), Miyoko Asada (actress), Yôji Yamada (writer), Chisako Hara (actress), Rentarô Mikuni (actor), Toshiyuki Nishida (actor), Yuriko Ishida (actress), Masanobu Takashima (actor), Aya Hirayama (actress), Rei Dan (actress), Jûzô Yamasaki (writer), Ken'ichi Kitami (writer), Masahiro Satô (actor), Yoshiaki Umegaki (actor), Yûzô Asahara (director),
Genres: Comedy,Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Actors: Gary Barber (producer), Ziyi Zhang (actress), Michelle Yeoh (actress), Kenneth Tsang (actor), Ken Watanabe (actor), Kaori Momoi (actress), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor), Kôji Yakusho (actor), James Huang (actor), Togo Igawa (actor), Anthony Begonia (actor), Ted Levine (actor), Mako (actor), Steven Spielberg (producer), Roger Birnbaum (producer),
Plot: In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, american-abroad, based-on-novel, best-friend, betrayal, bonsai, caning, child-abuseGenres: Drama, Romance,
Quotes:
Sayuri Nitta: [to Nobu, after the match is won] I see now why you like sumo, you can never judge a man's power by his appearance alone.Chairman: You have to savor life while you can.
Mameha: [in voiceover] Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
Chairman: Please, Sayuri, do not be afraid to look at me.
Sayuri Nitta: [turns to see the Chairman standing in front of her] Chairman, where is Nobu-san?::Chairman: He won't be coming.::Sayuri Nitta: Is something wrong?::Chairman: He knows what happened. It is not in his nature to forgive.::Sayuri Nitta: Chairman, what happened on the island...::Chairman: Please, you don't have to explain.::Sayuri Nitta: But I have shamed myself so deeply, past all forgiveness.::Chairman: No! I'm the one who must be forgiven.::Sayuri Nitta: I do not understand.::Chairman: Perhaps... if you had only known the truth.::Sayuri Nitta: The truth?::Chairman: Some years ago, I was on my way to the theater. I saw a little girl weeping by the Sunagawa. I stopped to buy her a cup of sweet ice.::Sayuri Nitta: You knew I was that little girl?::Chairman: Didn't you ever wonder why Mameha took you under her wing?::Sayuri Nitta: Mameha came to me because of you?... I wish you could have told me long ago.::[turns her back to him]::Chairman: What could I do? I owe Nobu my life. And so when I saw that he had a chance at happiness with you, I stood silent, but... But I cannot any longer. I hope... it is not too late. Don't be afraid to look at me, Chiyo.::Sayuri Nitta: [turns around to face him again] Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.::[finally kiss and embrace, cries in his arms]
Nobu: There is nothing I want more, Sayuri, than to become your danna.::Sayuri Nitta: I already owe you far too much. [turns away]::Nobu: I will not be refused.::Sayuri Nitta: Please.::Nobu: We are tied to each other. I know you feel it too.::Sayuri Nitta: I never meant to mislead you.::Nobu: [Grabs Sayuri] Sayuri, I do not like things held up before me that I cannot have...
The Baron: [after Sayuri discovers the teapot she is pouring from is empty] I'm sure if there was one drop left in that pot, Sayuri would have gotten it out! [other male patrons laugh]
The Baron: [while forcefully undressing Sayuri] Sayuri, I'm only having a look. Any man would do the same.
Hatsumomo: [slaps Sayuri roughly] I shall destroy you...
Colonel Derricks: [stops Sayuri as she is exiting the hot spring] So, what is the protocol?::Sayuri Nitta: Excuse me?::Colonel Derricks: Suppose I wanted to see you in private.::Sayuri Nitta: I beg your pardon, colonel, but that is not a geisha's custom.::Colonel Derricks: [rubs Sayuri's shoulder] Don't be coy. I mean, if it's a matter of price, I'm sure...::Sayuri Nitta: If there were a price, you could never afford it. [exits spring]
Daiteiden no yoru ni (2005)
Actors: Tomorowo Taguchi (actor), Chikage Awashima (actress), Ken Utsui (actor), Etsushi Toyokawa (actor), Shinobu Terajima (actress), Tomoko Tabata (actress), Tomoyo Harada (actress), Yoshihiro Suzuki (producer), Haruka Igawa (actress), Yû Kashii (actress), Kanata Hongô (actor), Kôji Kikkawa (actor), Tsuyoshi Abe (actor), Takashi Minamoto (writer), Takashi Minamoto (director),
Genres: Drama,Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Actors: Gary Barber (producer), Ziyi Zhang (actress), Michelle Yeoh (actress), Kenneth Tsang (actor), Ken Watanabe (actor), Kaori Momoi (actress), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor), Kôji Yakusho (actor), James Huang (actor), Togo Igawa (actor), Anthony Begonia (actor), Ted Levine (actor), Mako (actor), Steven Spielberg (producer), Roger Birnbaum (producer),
Plot: In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, american-abroad, based-on-novel, best-friend, betrayal, bonsai, caning, child-abuseGenres: Drama, Romance,
Quotes:
Sayuri Nitta: [to Nobu, after the match is won] I see now why you like sumo, you can never judge a man's power by his appearance alone.Chairman: You have to savor life while you can.
Mameha: [in voiceover] Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
Chairman: Please, Sayuri, do not be afraid to look at me.
Sayuri Nitta: [turns to see the Chairman standing in front of her] Chairman, where is Nobu-san?::Chairman: He won't be coming.::Sayuri Nitta: Is something wrong?::Chairman: He knows what happened. It is not in his nature to forgive.::Sayuri Nitta: Chairman, what happened on the island...::Chairman: Please, you don't have to explain.::Sayuri Nitta: But I have shamed myself so deeply, past all forgiveness.::Chairman: No! I'm the one who must be forgiven.::Sayuri Nitta: I do not understand.::Chairman: Perhaps... if you had only known the truth.::Sayuri Nitta: The truth?::Chairman: Some years ago, I was on my way to the theater. I saw a little girl weeping by the Sunagawa. I stopped to buy her a cup of sweet ice.::Sayuri Nitta: You knew I was that little girl?::Chairman: Didn't you ever wonder why Mameha took you under her wing?::Sayuri Nitta: Mameha came to me because of you?... I wish you could have told me long ago.::[turns her back to him]::Chairman: What could I do? I owe Nobu my life. And so when I saw that he had a chance at happiness with you, I stood silent, but... But I cannot any longer. I hope... it is not too late. Don't be afraid to look at me, Chiyo.::Sayuri Nitta: [turns around to face him again] Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.::[finally kiss and embrace, cries in his arms]
Nobu: There is nothing I want more, Sayuri, than to become your danna.::Sayuri Nitta: I already owe you far too much. [turns away]::Nobu: I will not be refused.::Sayuri Nitta: Please.::Nobu: We are tied to each other. I know you feel it too.::Sayuri Nitta: I never meant to mislead you.::Nobu: [Grabs Sayuri] Sayuri, I do not like things held up before me that I cannot have...
The Baron: [after Sayuri discovers the teapot she is pouring from is empty] I'm sure if there was one drop left in that pot, Sayuri would have gotten it out! [other male patrons laugh]
The Baron: [while forcefully undressing Sayuri] Sayuri, I'm only having a look. Any man would do the same.
Hatsumomo: [slaps Sayuri roughly] I shall destroy you...
Colonel Derricks: [stops Sayuri as she is exiting the hot spring] So, what is the protocol?::Sayuri Nitta: Excuse me?::Colonel Derricks: Suppose I wanted to see you in private.::Sayuri Nitta: I beg your pardon, colonel, but that is not a geisha's custom.::Colonel Derricks: [rubs Sayuri's shoulder] Don't be coy. I mean, if it's a matter of price, I'm sure...::Sayuri Nitta: If there were a price, you could never afford it. [exits spring]
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Actors: Gary Barber (producer), Ziyi Zhang (actress), Michelle Yeoh (actress), Kenneth Tsang (actor), Ken Watanabe (actor), Kaori Momoi (actress), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor), Kôji Yakusho (actor), James Huang (actor), Togo Igawa (actor), Anthony Begonia (actor), Ted Levine (actor), Mako (actor), Steven Spielberg (producer), Roger Birnbaum (producer),
Plot: In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, american-abroad, based-on-novel, best-friend, betrayal, bonsai, caning, child-abuseGenres: Drama, Romance,
Quotes:
Sayuri Nitta: [to Nobu, after the match is won] I see now why you like sumo, you can never judge a man's power by his appearance alone.Chairman: You have to savor life while you can.
Mameha: [in voiceover] Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
Chairman: Please, Sayuri, do not be afraid to look at me.
Sayuri Nitta: [turns to see the Chairman standing in front of her] Chairman, where is Nobu-san?::Chairman: He won't be coming.::Sayuri Nitta: Is something wrong?::Chairman: He knows what happened. It is not in his nature to forgive.::Sayuri Nitta: Chairman, what happened on the island...::Chairman: Please, you don't have to explain.::Sayuri Nitta: But I have shamed myself so deeply, past all forgiveness.::Chairman: No! I'm the one who must be forgiven.::Sayuri Nitta: I do not understand.::Chairman: Perhaps... if you had only known the truth.::Sayuri Nitta: The truth?::Chairman: Some years ago, I was on my way to the theater. I saw a little girl weeping by the Sunagawa. I stopped to buy her a cup of sweet ice.::Sayuri Nitta: You knew I was that little girl?::Chairman: Didn't you ever wonder why Mameha took you under her wing?::Sayuri Nitta: Mameha came to me because of you?... I wish you could have told me long ago.::[turns her back to him]::Chairman: What could I do? I owe Nobu my life. And so when I saw that he had a chance at happiness with you, I stood silent, but... But I cannot any longer. I hope... it is not too late. Don't be afraid to look at me, Chiyo.::Sayuri Nitta: [turns around to face him again] Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.::[finally kiss and embrace, cries in his arms]
Nobu: There is nothing I want more, Sayuri, than to become your danna.::Sayuri Nitta: I already owe you far too much. [turns away]::Nobu: I will not be refused.::Sayuri Nitta: Please.::Nobu: We are tied to each other. I know you feel it too.::Sayuri Nitta: I never meant to mislead you.::Nobu: [Grabs Sayuri] Sayuri, I do not like things held up before me that I cannot have...
The Baron: [after Sayuri discovers the teapot she is pouring from is empty] I'm sure if there was one drop left in that pot, Sayuri would have gotten it out! [other male patrons laugh]
The Baron: [while forcefully undressing Sayuri] Sayuri, I'm only having a look. Any man would do the same.
Hatsumomo: [slaps Sayuri roughly] I shall destroy you...
Colonel Derricks: [stops Sayuri as she is exiting the hot spring] So, what is the protocol?::Sayuri Nitta: Excuse me?::Colonel Derricks: Suppose I wanted to see you in private.::Sayuri Nitta: I beg your pardon, colonel, but that is not a geisha's custom.::Colonel Derricks: [rubs Sayuri's shoulder] Don't be coy. I mean, if it's a matter of price, I'm sure...::Sayuri Nitta: If there were a price, you could never afford it. [exits spring]
17sai tabidachi no futari (2003)
Actors: Hiroaki Murakami (actor), Sansei Shiomi (actor), Hitomi Takahashi (actress), Eri Watanabe (actress), Shin'ichirô Sawai (director), Rika Ishikawa (actress), Riuko Tominaga (producer), Miki Fujimoto (actress),
Plot: Maiko (Ishikawa) is a 17 year old aspiring picture book writer who was abandoned by her widowed father at the age of 3 and has lived in a foster home ever since. She meets Lisa (Fujimoto), also 17, and the two quickly form a bond of understanding as they help each other work out their problems. Lisa holds a grudge against her mother for paying more attention to the men she brings home than her own daughter and Maiko begins to doubt her artistic dream will ever come to fruition after a book editor judges her writing ability harshly.
Genres: Drama,Ruby Fruit (1995)
Actors: Kaho Minami (actress), Toshio Nabeshima (producer), Jun Togawa (actress), Ayana Inoue (actress), Takumi Kimizuka (director), Tomoko Mochizuki (actress), Tsugami Arimura (actress),
Plot: Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a woman. She tells Maiko she must find the woman, Shireni, in Bali and convince her to return to Japan, or she must use the dagger to kill her. Soon after her arrival in Bali she meets Shireni and is invited to stay with her. Quickly Maiko finds herself trapped on Shirini's island paradise, by her own confusion and her developing love for Shireni. She discovers Shireni to be immortal, a former spirit medium whose only goal is to find pleasure, body and soul. After some internal conflicts she remembers the dagger. She takes it to Shirini and begs her one last time to come back to Japan with her. Shireni refuses and tells Maiko to use the dagger on her, that she wants to die. A breif struggle ensues in which Shireni is stabbed and dies. Maiko licks the blood from the dagger, thus ensuring her own immortality. She returns to Japan, mysteriously pregnant.
Keywords: bali, death, fate, immortality, lesbian, lesbianism, love, medium, pleasure, reincarnationGenres: Fantasy, Romance,
Maiko Filmography
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2013, role: actress
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2011, role: actress
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2010, role: actress , character name: Aihara
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2009, role: actress , character name: Kaiko Katsu
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2009, role: actress , character name: Yuki
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2009, role: actress
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2008, role: actress , character name: Michiho Misawa - Lady from Tokyo
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2005, role: actress , character name: Nurse Mayumi-chan
Maiko Filmography
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2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
Maiko
ALBUMS
- Amygdala released: 2013
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Amygdala
Released 2013- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Track ID Anyone?
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SUPER EUROBEAT presents 頭文字D Fourth Stage D SELECTION+
Released 2004- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Let’s Go Come On
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舞衣子
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Ex-Cowboy, Mogwai
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Chocky, Mogwai
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I Know You Are But What Am I?, Mogwai
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Golden Porsche, Mogwai
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Place For Parks, Mogwai
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Christmas Song, Mogwai
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Secret Pint, Mogwai
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Robot Chant, Mogwai
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I Am Not Batman, Mogwai
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