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- noun The lodging-house of a
geisha .
Etymologies
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Examples
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i feel that okiya is actually akai, and i believe that akai isnt dead
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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
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People called the okiya and left messages purposely misdirecting me to appointments.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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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
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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
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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
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People called the okiya and left messages purposely misdirecting me to appointments.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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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
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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.
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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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