Costumes/types—Geisha

“The house next to us is brilliantly illuminated, and through the half open shoji the discordant, falsetto voices of the geisha (singing and dancing girls), and the clang of their samisen are wafted into the still night, like the wail of a hundred cats.”

Arthur H. Crow, Highways and Byeways in Japan, (London, 1883) p. 169