The training of an apprentice geisha is an arduous path.

She had great difficulty walking; the regalia of an apprentice geisha is so cumbersome.

The first step was to have my hair done in the manner of an apprentice geisha, in the "split peach" style, which I've mentioned.

For this reason, a young apprentice geisha must learn a new way of sleeping after her hair is styled for the first time.

This baggy pocket, which we call the/wn, is the part that's so long on the kimono of an apprentice geisha.

Already by this time, I'd been wearing the complete ensemble of an apprentice geisha for several hours.

I wasn't supposed to drink sake, because an apprentice geisha- particularly one still in her novitiate-should appear childlike.

An apprentice geisha is expected to walk a man to the toilet and back, but no one expects a novice to do it.

"East year an apprentice geisha caught it by accident on a nail," Tatsumi told me.

Maiko are apprentice geisha, and this stage can last for years.