Festa: Foreign Affairs

Festa: Foreign Affairs

This Saturday at Kavali, we celebrate the Geisha, so join us for this formidable foreign affair. The geisha were the Rokugani epitome of femininity; the personification of beauty, culture and sensitivity. They spent decades of rigorous training in dance, singing, etiquette, and playing the samisen. The geisha house was the only place a samurai could put aside the mask of his duties and be "only a man" during conversation. A samurai never opened his heart to his wife. A samurai could only open his heart to a geisha. Geishas are not submissive and subservient, but are some of the most financially and emotionally successful women in Japan, and traditionally have been so. There is currently no western equivalent for a geisha — they are truly the most impeccable form of Japanese art...