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By the way, today I had a chance to see real geisha (actually 1 geisha and 2 maiko) in Finland. My cousin invited me to an event, that was by invitation only, that means you cannot buy tickets there, you had to be invited.
The geisha were great I have to say, but the person who was giving explanations and hosting the event was a fat canadian (this guy), who somehow had gotten himself involved with the geisha world, he made the experience diluted to say the least.
Hard to describe the geishas performance, I can just say it was refined, beautiful.
Although the event was invitation only, the small theater (savoy theather, helsinki) was extremely tightly packed (someone said 700 people). After the performance free sake and sushi was offered, but the some of the sushi had still raw rice (horrible) and the sake was california made Gekkeikan (horrible) and it was so crowded that it was more packed than the last train to saitama on a friday night. Still the brave geisha came and mixed in with the people and allowed them to take pictures of them and chat, all while wearing the hot and heavy kimono. (Well I guess Kyoto is still more hot than helsinki around now).
2 comments:
Geishas in Helsinki? The hell..?
3 geishas and 700 hundred customers at the a same time sounds like a bad ratio however.
Give the Canadian a break, he doesn't look so fat ;-)
The photo of the canadian was taken so that he looks thin.
His voice though was a fatmans voice, you know like Barry White. Barry White is cool (may he rest in peace), but he wouldn't really mix in with the Geishas either.
Not to say that other things at the event were fitting. Such as the customer/geisha ratio, which wasn't very authentic either huh.
However the money/night with geisha ratio was excellent (0 euro)
But if you combine the customer/geisha ration with the money/night with geisha ratio, you get the GEI (Geisha Experience Index) which was at most average for this event.
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