okiya

i feel that okiya is actually akai, and i believe that akai isnt dead

Detective Conan: Okiya and Bourbon « Undercover 2008

The only geiko allowed to reside in the okiya are the atotori and the young geiko who are still under contract.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

People called the okiya and left messages purposely misdirecting me to appointments.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

The only geiko allowed to reside in the okiya are the atotori and the young geiko who are still under contract.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

Maiko and geiko start off their careers living and training in an establishment called an okiya lodging house, usually translated as geisha house.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

Maiko and geiko start off their careers living and training in an establishment called an okiya lodging house, usually translated as geisha house.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

People called the okiya and left messages purposely misdirecting me to appointments.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

Until a geisha has assembled her own collection of kimono — or until she's been adopted as the daughter of an okiya, which is just about the same thing — she'll be in someone else's power all her life.

Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997

Akai appears in later cahpters again, so there is a possibility that he is still alive but I wouldn ` t say that okiya is Akai.

Detective Conan: Okiya and Bourbon « Undercover 2008

As agent and manager of their careers, the okiya would continue to receive a percentage of their income.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002