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Geisha with a White Cat 1905 by Blue Ruin 1
<br /><i>Via Flickr:</i>
<br />“Our house has a cat… and we always play with him before the ozashiki [party rooms] start… A lot of okiya [geisha houses] keep dogs or cats. Since we live together we become like a family, and I guess the pets become kind of like substitute children – it sometimes seems as if they are more important than the maiko [apprentices] and geiko [geisha]!”
From “A geisha’s journey: my life as a Kyoto apprentice” by Komomo, first published in 2008, page 70.
A Geisha and her Cat 1926 by Blue Ruin 1
<br /><i>Via Flickr:</i>
<br />According to “Things Japanese” by Basil Hall Chamberlain, first published in 1890, a cat (neko) is a nickname colloquially applied to the youngest and most attractive singing-girls (geisha), the reason being that they bewitch men with their artful ways, like magic cats with several long tails (nekomata), while young courtesans (oiran) are called foxes (kitsune) for much the same reason. (Entry on ‘cats’ page 86)
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