Name: 芸者を雇う方法 (How to Hire a Geisha)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:43:18.000Z
Duration: 12 min 46 s
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She's going to help us with our first ever geisha ozashiki experience.

that I received from the mother of the geisha house here in Oomorikaigan.

You receive an artist name when you start  kind of training in a certain type of art.

So since I'm taking dance classes and music classes I was able to receive that name.

If we want to hire a geisha, what's the first step?

So when you book a geisha you kind of have to decide a couple of things.

First of all you have to decide the restaurant.

you need a private Japanese koshitsu style room.

The geisha needs to have a place to dance and play music as well.

And then the second thing you need to consider is  how many geisha you'd like to call.

but if you really want to get the full experience, it's better to at least call two

because then you can have one geisha who plays  an instrument while the other one dances.

Otherwise, if you just have one geisha they're probably going to dance with a cassette tape or CD,

which is totally still an amazing experience and I recommend it,

then yeah I recommend you try and call two if possible.

If you speak Japanese or if you know someone who speaks Japanese,

that's going to be the easiest thing to do beacuse

a lot of geisha houses, in Kyoto especially but some in Tokyo as well

have a special rule that's called "No first time customers."

That rule basically means that you cannot call a geisha house or restaurant

as a first time customer and say "I would like to book a party with geisha."

You have to be introduced by someone who is  already sort of an insider in the geisha world.

But if you know someone who speaks Japanese

they might have an easier time of finding a restaurant or finding a geisha house without that rule

your best option is probably going to be to find some sort of travel booking company

that offer a geisha experience where they will  handle booking the geisha

and the restaurant and everything for you.

The geisha house that you're affiliated with,

Yeah! We're called Yoshinoya. That's the name of our geisha house.

We have an English language reservation form on our webpage.

We will help you get everything coordinated:

the restaurant, the time, and we'll set up the geisha for you as well.

Okay great! So we'll put the link of Yoshinoya in the description box

so if you would like to hire a geisha, they'll be able to help you with the whole experience.

Well, let's get started with the process.

First, the geisha will enter the room and give a formal greeting to the customers

Next, guests will start the banquet with a formal toast.

So everyone's glasses will be filled [NOTE: It's polite to fill the geisha's glass]

and everyone will say kampai, which means "cheers" in Japanese.

Are you also supposed to touch the lower part of the customer's glass?

After the kampai, the geisha will move around

and sit next to customers and make conversation with them.

At this time, if you'd like to give the geisha a tip, which is recommended,

[NOTE: A good tip starts from 3,000 yen (~$30)]

you can put it in a pretty envelope or something like that

and just give it to her and say something like "doozo" (here you go).

How long have you been working as geisha?

We have someone studying in our geisha house who can speak English.

So, with her and we can communicate better in English as well.

It seems like most customers are older generations.

Since it's possible to reserve geisha via the web

I think it's becoming more familiar to young people, too.

So geisha has become more open for people to access. Yes.

I had no idea that you can hire geisha online.

there will be a performance of traditional Japanese dance and music.