Photographing sakkō and Kurokami is a rare and special event, and Toshikana-san was a very rare and special maiko for me personally. Every once in a very long while the stars align and moments like this happen.
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My book Now a Geisha would not exist if not for Mameharu, the first maiko who gave me permission to photograph her erikae.
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A behind-the-scenes story of how I made this portrait of the maiko Mamehana with the sakkō hairstyle
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The two weeks just before a maiko becomes a geiko are filled with curiosity and nervousness, and they are also a time of tension and change.
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