yeah.. i read that stuff too...
just like now, one wonders about the Geisha tradition... within it,
is a messed up tradition where a woman is trained in the arts of
dance, music and all that... before she can go, she has to leave
her family, "get adopted by another", get accepted by a teahouse,
find a patron who pays for her everything (and she is effectively
his "concubine" ) and a lot of other things...
her real parents seem heartbroken
she herself doesn't seem very happy about it too..
strange world isn't it?
p.s. there are a lot of things which i wonder if the documentary is
going to address.. the seedier side of being a geisha..
