My month as a poor man's geisha
The Standard - 22 April 2006
...more than that, it was the weird glamor of the phenomenon. For a teenage girl already obsessed with Japanese culture (and Asia in general), the idea of being paid to wear pretty clothes and coquettishly entertain high- powered salarymen seemed too good to be true - not such a far cry from the iconic geisha of ukiyo-e prints and Mizoguchi films. ...more...
