Mineko Iwasaki

Mineko Iwasaki

female, 60 years old
born Masako Tanaka on November 2 1949 in Kyoto, was Japan's number one "geiko" (geisha) until her sudden retirement at the age of 29.
Liza Dalby

Liza Dalby

female
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist and a novelist. She is the only westerner to have become a geisha, which she did in the course of researching her...
Dion Beebe

Dion Beebe

male, 43 years old
Dion Beebe (born 1966) is an Australian cinematographer. His most well-known films include "Chicago", "Collateral", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and...
Fujiko Kano

Fujiko Kano

female, 37 years old
Fujiko Kano (born April 18, 1972, in Fukuoka, Japan) is a pornstar of Japanese and Mongolian descent. Kano started out working as a caddie in a...
Nagai Kafu

Nagai Kafu

male, deceased (1959)
Nagai Kafū, born Nagai Sōkichi (永井 壮吉), December 4, 1879 - April 30, 1959, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, essayist, and diarist. His works...

Ichimaru

female
Ichimaru born Mitsue Goto (born July 16, 1906 in Japan), was a popular Japanese recording artist and geisha.
Shintaro Katsu

Shintaro Katsu

male, deceased (1997)
born Toshio Okumura was a Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director. He was the son of kabuki performer Katsutoji Kineya ("Kineya Katsutōji") w...

John Luther Long

male, deceased (1927)
John Luther Long (1861-1927) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story "Madame Butterfly" based on the recollections of his...
Machiko Kyo

Machiko Kyo

female, 85 years old
Machiko Kyō (born March 25, 1924 in Osaka) is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. Machiko trained to be a d...
Hilda Lizarazu

Hilda Lizarazu

female, 46 years old
Hilda María del Pilar Lizarazu is an Argentine rock and roll singer and composer. Between 1988 and 1999, Lizarazu was the main vocalist and k...