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  • noun The lodging-house of a geisha.

Etymologies

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From Japanese 置屋.

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Examples

  • i feel that okiya is actually akai, and i believe that akai isnt dead

    Detective Conan: Okiya and Bourbon « Undercover 2008

  • The only geiko allowed to reside in the okiya are the atotori and the young geiko who are still under contract.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • People called the okiya and left messages purposely misdirecting me to appointments.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • The only geiko allowed to reside in the okiya are the atotori and the young geiko who are still under contract.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • Maiko and geiko start off their careers living and training in an establishment called an okiya lodging house, usually translated as geisha house.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • Maiko and geiko start off their careers living and training in an establishment called an okiya lodging house, usually translated as geisha house.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • People called the okiya and left messages purposely misdirecting me to appointments.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • Until a geisha has assembled her own collection of kimono — or until she's been adopted as the daughter of an okiya, which is just about the same thing — she'll be in someone else's power all her life.

    Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997

  • Akai appears in later cahpters again, so there is a possibility that he is still alive but I wouldn ` t say that okiya is Akai.

    Detective Conan: Okiya and Bourbon « Undercover 2008

  • As agent and manager of their careers, the okiya would continue to receive a percentage of their income.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

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