Oiran vs Geisha - What's the difference?
oiran | geisha |
a high-status courtesan
:* 2002': The '''''oiran'' of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art. — Donald Richie, ''The Inland Sea (Stone Bridge Press 2002, p. 192)
A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.
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