TOKYO (Reuters) - Her face creased with age and her hearing faltering, 98-year-old Kokin is proud to have dedicated her life to being a geisha, feted by men for her charm, wit and beauty. Sign up here ...

Misconceptions about geisha that stem from highly sensationalized stories from Western perspectives flatten the complex cultural artistry of the profession. Detail of a Katsura, a geisha wig. Before ...

"Memoirs of a Geisha" is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot. It stars three of the world's most beautiful women -- Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li ...

Despite the words "a novel" on the jacket, when it came out five years ago Memoirs of a Geisha fooled plenty of Arthur Golden's readers into believing they were reading an actual memoir. One source of ...