| Japan banned perms and required even geisha girls to wear the unbecoming peasant mompe. |
| In their heyday, before the Second World War, there were more than 80,000 geisha in Japan. |
| The Japanese geisha waits for her American navy husband's return. |
| Behind her followed the geisha Chikafuku, her face unpainted, wearing an elegant, ankle-length kimono of subdued greys and browns. |
| Then someone told her he'd seen the play and had a flashing vision of a Japanese geisha in a similar garden setting. |
| Meanwhile in Japan, a geisha is made pregnant by an abusive Englishman, who abandons her. |
