thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 12月10日 01時58分

Photo by Jodi Cobb @jodicobbphoto. ||
From the archives: A geisha in her house is struck by a shaft of sunlight coming from outside. This was the cover of the book "A Day in the Life of Japan", shot many years ago. It was my first experience in the geisha world, and led me to return several years later to document their lives for my own book "Geisha: the Life, the Voices, the Art." I was the first photographer given permission to photograph their secret world, and it took six months over three years to complete. The geisha are now considered the guardians of the highest of Japanese cultural traditions, in an ever-evolving role in Japanese society. There are very few geisha today (no one knows how many), down from 80,000 in the 1920’s, and now they enter that world by personal choice. But as I got to know the older geisha, I found that many of them had not entered the geisha world by choice, but by adversity and even tragedy—sold by destitute parents, or abandoned or born to a prostitute or courtesan. But through discipline and talent the geisha created a life of beauty, becoming the image of the perfect woman, a living work of art. And that was the source of her pride, and her survival. @ナショナルジオグラフィック #geisha

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