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Ones hairstyle projects ones status. Female hair telegraphs
availability. Certain styles indi-cate not yet: this wearer is too
young to bear children. Early communication was often about a
females ability to carry offspring.
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A chaste look, nothing dangly.Momoware
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Only slightly suggestive.
Yuiwata
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What do you suppose well matured means?
Shimada
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No particular age...
Once married, her age appears to be immaterial: shes taken.
Marumage
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Men in womens clothing and people falling down: the
under-pinnings of comedy.Shitajimage
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Very suggestive, phallic-esque hair.
Tekomai
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I have had this doll since I was 6 (1964). It made a lasting
im-pression upon me. It also suggests a coherence in my life that I
still have some of the original rice paper even though the doll is
at least 41 years old.
originalrice
paper
Inside of the lid of the box
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Similar Japanese wig dolls found on the internet.
MizuageFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Mizuage (?, lit.
hoisting from water) was a ceremony undergone by a Japanese maiko
(apprentice geisha) to signify her coming of age. When the older
geisha (in charge of the maikos training) considered the young
maiko ready to come of age, the topknot of her hair was
symboli-cally cut.
During the Edo period, courtesans undergoing mizuage were
sponsored by a patron who had the right of taking their
virginity.[1] Mizuage has also historically been connected with
loss of virginity of maiko,[2][3] but this practice became illegal
in 1959.[4] Afterward, a party would be held for the maiko.
According to anthropologist Liza Dalby, mizuage was an important
initiation to womanhood and the geisha world. Mizuage gave way to
the next stage of training, the senior maiko. Once the mizuage
patrons function (of deflowering the young maiko) was served, he
was to have no further relations with the girl.[5]
The money acquired for a maikos mizuage was a great sum and it
was used to promote her debut as a geisha,[6] but this was not
considered by geisha to be an act of prostitution.[citation
needed]
Mineko Iwasaki, a geisha that Arthur Golden met while writing
Memoirs of a Geisha described mizuage in her autobiography as being
an initiation party, symbolized on the geisha-to-be by a change in
hairstyle rather than the loss of virginity.[7] It is a celebration
of the passage of girl (maiko) to woman (geisha).
References[edit]1 Seigle, Cecilia Segawa (1993). Yoshiwara: the
glittering world of the Japanese courtesan. [Honolulu]: University
of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1488-6.page 179.2 Melissa Hope Ditmore
(2006). Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work. Westport, Conn:
Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32969-9., page 184 [1]3 Japan
encyclopedia. Belknap Pr of Harvard U. 2005. ISBN
0-674-01753-6.page 2344 Reynolds, Wayne; Gallagher, John (2003).
Geisha : A Unique World of Tradition, Elegance and Art. PRC
Publishing. ISBN 1-85648-697-4. page 1355 Liza Crihfield Dalby.
Geisha. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 19986 Lesley
Downer. Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World. (London:
Headline Book Publishing, 2000) pages 256-266.7 Mineko Iwasaki.
Geisha, A Life. (New York: Washington Square Press, 2002) page
206-210.
Topknot is cut as a prelude to deflowering
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I preferred my geisha with a sword, which I bought in San
Francisco in 1970, when I was 12 and in seventh grade.