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They all wore the same hairstyle—the wareshinobu of a young apprentice geisha—and looked to me as if they knew much more about Gion than either Pumpkin or I would ever know.†

p. 55.3

An apprentice geisha wears a red collar, but of course Hatsumomo wasn't an apprentice; her collar was white.†

p. 64.9

An apprentice geisha wears a red collar, but of course Hatsumomo wasn't an apprentice; her collar was white.†

p. 64.9

They were worn only by apprentice geisha; and since Hatsumomo could no longer wear them, they were kept in a rented vault for safekeeping until they were needed again.†

p. 72.8

The training of an apprentice geisha is an arduous path.†

p. 103.2

Your Hatsumomo never liked young Hatsuoki, and when they both became apprentice geisha, she couldn't bear having her as a rival.†

p. 122.7

By the time a girl is finally ready to make her debut as an apprentice, she needs to have established a relationship with a more experienced geisha.

p. 128.2

apprentice = someone who works for an expert to learn a trade

The reason a busy and successful geisha goes to all this trouble for a younger girl is because everyone in Gion benefits when an apprentice succeeds.†

p. 129.7

The apprentice herself benefits by paying off her debts over time, of course; and if she's lucky, she'll end up mistress to a wealthy man.†

p. 129.7

Even the wigmaker, and the shop where hair ornaments are sold, and the sweets shop where the apprentice geisha will buy gifts for her patrons from time to time ...they may never directly receive a portion of the girl's fees; but certainly they all benefit by the patronage of yet another successful geisha, who can bring customers into Gion to spend money.†

p. 129.8

On the other hand, the mistress of an okiya that has invested a great deal of money in training a certain apprentice won't sit quietly and just wait for some dull geisha to come along and offer to train her.†

p. 130.1

Hatsumomo may have been the sort of woman who would bite a spider right back, but nearly any apprentice would have been happy to be her younger sister.†

p. 130.3

A geisha as popular as you, Mameha-san ...you could have any apprentice in Gion as your younger sister.†

p. 133.8

She added the "to-be" because Mameha and I wouldn't officially be sisters until the time of my debut as an apprentice geisha.†

p. 145.4

The posters showed a lovely photograph of the pagoda from the Toji Temple in southeastern Kyoto, with a cherry tree to one side and a lovely young apprentice geisha on the other side looking very shy and graceful, and exquisitely delicate.†

p. 149.5

That apprentice geisha was Mameha.†

p. 149.5

When she was satisfied that I understood her, she said: "Following your debut, you'll be an apprentice geisha until the age of eighteen."

p. 150.1

apprentice = someone who works for an expert to learn a trade

All apprentice geisha must study dance, but, as I say, only the promising and attractive ones will be encouraged to specialize and go on to become true dancers, rather than shamisen players or singers.†

p. 150.8

During the spring of 1934, after I'd been in training for more than two years, Hatsumomo and Mother decided that the time had come for Pumpkin to make her debut as an apprentice geisha.†

p. 154.1

Then came the day Pumpkin dressed as an apprentice geisha for the first time and went with Hatsumomo to the Mizuki Teahouse, for the ceremony to bind them together as sisters.†

p. 154.9

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

p. 155.2

The maids held Pumpkin's arms while she slipped her feet into the tall wooden shoes we call okobo, which an apprentice geisha always wears.†

p. 155.4

It wasn't the most beautiful kimono you would ever see, but when I looked at myself in the full-length mirror as Tatsumi was tying a bright green obi into place around my waist, I found that except for my plain hairstyle, I might have been taken for a young apprentice geisha on her way to a party.†

p. 156.5

I've heard it said that the week in which a young girl prepares for her debut as an apprentice geisha is like when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.†

p. 162.1

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.†

p. 162.3

In back where the knot is split, the fabric is left visible; it might be any design or color, but in the case of an apprentice geisha—after a certain point in her life, at least—it's always red silk.†

p. 163.8

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

p. 164.6

Every afternoon during the week leading up to my debut, Auntie dressed me in the complete regalia of an apprentice geisha and made me walk up and down the dirt corridor of the okiya to build up my strength.†

p. 165.1

In the case of an apprentice geisha, this means the most dramatic fashion of all, a darari-obi—"dangling obi"—knotted almost as high as the shoulder blades, and with the ends hanging nearly to the ground.†

p. 165.3

When an apprentice geisha walks down the street in front of you, you notice not her kimono but rather her brilliantly colored, dangling obi—with just a margin of kimono showing at the shoulders and on the sides.†

p. 165.4

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

p. 165.8

Years later a famous scientist from Kyoto University, when he was very drunk one night, said something about the costume of an apprentice geisha that I've never forgotten.†

p. 165.9

But I believe the apprentice geisha of Gion is perhaps the most brilliantly colored primate of all!†

p. 165.9

The gourd, being hollow and light, is thought to offset the heaviness of the body, you see, and many a clumsy young apprentice has relied upon one to help keep her from falling down.†

p. 168.3

If an apprentice geisha acts the way you did just then—pouring tea just like a maid would—the poor man will lose all hope.†

p. 168.9

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

p. 169.8

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

p. 174.9

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

p. 175.5

When there isn't an apprentice in the room, a man will usually walk himself to the toilet, or sometimes one of the geisha will accompany him.†

p. 175.5

When I entered the room, I saw that another geisha had joined the party, along with an apprentice.†

p. 175.8

Pumpkin was a full-fledged apprentice now; she'd been a novice six months earlier.†

p. 176.7

Your little friend Pumpkin has just won the apprentice's award.†

p. 188.5

Mameha was referring to an award for the apprentice who'd earned the most during the previous month.†

p. 188.6

Encouraging apprentices to earn as much as possible helps shape them into the sort of geisha who will be most appreciated in Gion—that is to say, the ones who will earn a lot not only for themselves but for everyone else too.

p. 188.7

apprentices = someone who works for an expert to learn a trade

Pumpkin now seemed to be one of the most popular apprentices in Gion, while I remained one of the most obscure.†

p. 189.1

Hatsumomo and Pumpkin will both pay dearly for this apprentice's award.†

p. 189.6

Pumpkin may have earned the most money last month, but Raiha is still the most popular apprentice in Gion.†

p. 189.7

While I was an apprentice, it was 3 yen, which was about the cost of two bottles of liquor, perhaps.†

p. 189.9

An apprentice, on the other hand, can't possibly get away with such behavior.†

p. 190.7

While her popular older sister might drop in on as many as twenty parties during an evening, an apprentice probably attends no more than five.

p. 190.8 *

apprentice = someone who works for an expert to learn a trade

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