What is a geisha?
That's a lot of makeup
Lindsey Puls
A Geisha, called Geiko in Kyoto, is a female entertainer highly trained in traditional arts such as dance, song, tea ceremony, calligraphy, and poetry. Training usually begins around age fifteen and lasts for several years. Once a Maiko completes her training, she becomes a Geiko, and many continue in the profession for life. ¶There are still many misconceptions about Geisha, especially the idea that they are involved in prostitution.
Essentially, then, that is or would be a wealthy, college-educated woman with degrees in classic liberal arts and fine arts. It's not clear if they have anything to do at all with Sumo wrestlers or if that is considered a much lower class.
So where are the men of that class? I would assume men in the industry are expected to specialize in more specific traditional arts and skills and crafts. Hospitality is obviously not a profession that exists without men or men's work. So a man in that industry would just do his job discreetly and efficiently, except for celebrity sushi chefs and men with similar high profile duties.
The definitions all refer to a "person" of art or skill or craft who is not assumed to be male, if that is a way to refer to a female without being too direct.
I don't like the English term "misconception." That is (very literally) the same as "unintentional pregnancy" if the word is broken up into its component parts. Very deceptive and sly the way it's introduced, too.
So if male Sumo wrestlers die so young, and old Japanese ladies are still doing their gardening over 100 years old, then that is either a gross exaggeration of vital statistics or a "cougar" culture.
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How many years of training or education does it take for a lady to pick up a young man and outlive him to boot?
If that's a man who marries a woman for her professional hospitality industry home cooking abilities, he would in fact have to eat like a sumo wrestler. Putting two and two together, China says stay out of Japan now.
Simone McCarthy
The Chinese morality police are here.