- 600s- Saburuko (servant girls), mostly wandering girls who need money, sold sex services, others entertained at high class social gatherings
- 794- Kyoto began to form beauty-obsessed culture, where Shirabyōshi (female dancers) thrived.
- 1617- Prostitution illegal, created pleasure quarters instead where yūjo (play women) women were licensed, beginning of kabuki theater
- 1680s- odoriko (dancing girls) very popular paid entertainers for upper-class samurai, though many still in prostitution
- 1750- First woman to called geisha- Kikuyu- a skilled prostitute that played shamisen and sang
- 1760s-1770s- Geisha's very popular
- 1800- Geisha became an occupation
- 1830s- Geisha style very fashionable, some stopped only sold art, others still prostitution along with dance and music
- 1944- WWII, all things in the geisha world shut down, people put into factories.
- 1945- Allowed to reopen, some followed western tradition and others stayed true to their culture
- 1959- Maiko's (apprentice Geisha) virginity auctions declared illegal
- 1960s-1970s- Japan undergoing post feudal- modern society
Source:
Encyclopedia Britannica. Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 2002. Print.
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