The highest yūjo class was the geisha's predecessor, called oiran, a combination of actress and prostitute, who performed erotic dances as part of a new art known as kabuku. The talented ...

I’ve always been frustrated by geisha and oiran movies. Women are not as weak as shown. The characters should be much bolder. And I wanted to show that it’s quite fun for women to live [in a ...

Original geisha artifacts rarely make their way out ... as assistants to a class of high-end Japanese courtesans known as oiran. The first geishas were actually male but their role was soon ...

Miss Nakamura considered the word carefully. Perhaps, she said, the questioner was thinking of the oiran? Like a geisha, an oiran was a cultured woman but would be available to spend the night ...