ah, well, nevermind, i suppose reviewing an accepted character would be redundant then. welcome to the rp.
I really would like to clear up one persisting misunderstanding I'm seeing pop up in this roleplay though . Geisha in real life were not trained and would have had nothing to learn, from a common brothel. Brothel girls by far and large, much like today, needed to be one thing: pretty enough to pay for. Geisha went through
years of training (which is a huge financial investment to make into someone) to make them into women who were so talented in conversation, poetry, music, tea ceremonies, and other such skills, that they didn't
need to spread their legs to entertain their guests, they were better than that, that was the whole point.
However, with that being said, I think by this point we may as well just accept that in whatever alternate history timeline where ritenkyo and ritenkyo's japan exist, the geisha were basically high-class prostitutes since most people coming into this rp wanting to play them seem to have that idea. Also, if we wanted to be painfully accurate to history, none of the girls here woudl be geisha since technically geisha didn't exist until the early 1700's, and
female geisha weren't a trend until the
late 1700. and while geisha were, and I quote: essentially imprisoned and strictly forbidden to sell sex in order to protect the business of the
Oiran. While licensed courtesans existed to meet men's sexual needs,
machi geisha carved out a separate niche as artists and erudite female companions.
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But,
before geisha was a 'thing' existed, in the time period where we're currently playing, the closest equivalent were Yujo, "play women", and the highest ranking of those women were [a combination of
actress and prostitute, originally playing on stages set in the dry
Kamo riverbed in Kyoto. They performed erotic dances and skits, and this new art was dubbed
kabuku, meaning "to be wild and outrageous".]
these would be the closest equivalent to geisha and
technically what all our high-class brothel girls should be calling themelves.
if, this was real-world japan. But like i said, at this point it's a lot simpler to just say that in our RP's altered history, geisha emerged about 200 years early and were not barred from engaging in prostitution.
