geisha – Page 3 – un regard oblique

TERUHA (the nine fingered-geisha or the nine-fingered priest) with Flower and Doll,
ca. 1910 | src: Okinawa Soba (Flickr)

Teruha at age 14,
when she was either still a MAIKO named CHIYOHA in Osaka, or a
MAIKO named CHIYOHA in Tokyo, where she had recently moved to escape her
scandalous reputation as “The Maiko without a Little Finger”.
Teruha, aka the nine fingered-geisha or the nine-fingered priest | src: Okinawa Soba (Flickr)