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Geisha A Life 0743444299 | eBay  No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come ... a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of ... Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. ..... I recommend it to anyone interested in japanese culture and the flower & willow world.
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Geisha - My Story  Dec 17, 2000 ... A withdrawn child, I found more interest in Japanese culture - music, the arts - than .... Karyukai - A nicely done site with a lot of information about geisha and maiko, and even ... Geisha: Women of Japan's Flower & Willow World ... tension between image and reality in the art of these exquisite entertainers.
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Jeopary Question, IT'S JAPANESE TO ME - TriviaBistro.com  ... Jeopardy Questions  Fun Facts  Daily Trivia  Download Trivia. Next Question. These female entertainers are found in the Karyukai, "Flower & Willow World".
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jeopardy/2403_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  IT'S JAPANESE TO ME | These female entertainers are found in the Karyukai, "Flower & Willow World" | Geisha. right: Kathy. Wrong: Value: $800. Number: 24.
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Kiri: The Final Curtain - Telegraph  Aug 14, 1999 ... Kiri Te Kanawa in her 1971 triumph, in The Marriage of Figaro ... completed an album of Maori songs that she has worked on for a year and a half. ... Kiri has been the top-ticket diva since Joan Sutherland stood down a decade ago. ... A three-year staff contract at Covent Garden gave her a foot on the ladder...
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Eight Things You Probably Don't Know About Flowering Cherry Trees  May 2, 2014 ... Though these trees were bred for flowers, not fruit, some do produce small ... In Japan, flowering cherries, with their short blooming period, symbolize the ... It wasn't that long ago that Sakura Matsuri was scheduled for the first...
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J! Archive - Show #5126, aired 2006-12-18  Dec 18, 2006 ... Higashi-Gyoen Garden is on the grounds of this city's Imperial Palace .... "My Sharona" knows it's a special talent for something (like remembering who gave us "My Sharona")...
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Miko - Wikipedia  In Shinto, a miko () is a shrine (jinja) maiden or a supplementary priestess. Miko were once likely seen as a shaman but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized role in daily shrine life, trained to perform tasks, ranging from sacred cleansing to performing the sacred Kagura dance. ... The Japanese words miko and fujo ("female shaman" and "shrine maiden"...
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Full text of "Around the world through Japan" - Internet Archive  The pundits write it pankha^ which means a fan, and say the word is derived from ...... and saw specimens of the keena (or kina) trees common at Nuwara Eliya in Ceylon, ...... and tlie novel as compensa- tions, and the Chinese bear them no ill-will. ...... The acreage of these cereals, together with peas, potatoes, and millet,...
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Chrysanthemum | Article | Academic World Book  Oct 21, 2016 ... World Book Logo ... Chrysanthemums also flourished in Japan. In 797, the Mikado (ruler of Japan) made this flower his personal emblem.
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The Hina Matsuri - A Living Tradition - L'Asie Exotique  The Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival has roots reaching back to antiquity but it ... it is a day when young girls play hostess, emulating the social graces of their parents. ... of progeny," and has connotations of immortality, fertility and marital happiness. ... Also known as guardian dolls or hoko-hina ("lowly child dolls"), these figures...
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Chrysanthemum Day - Wikipedia  Chrysanthemum Day (, Kiku no Sekku) is one of the five ancient sacred festivals of Japan. It is celebrated on the 9th day of the 9th month. It was started...
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J! Archive - Show #4041, aired 2002-03-11  Also called a yellow daisy, this "black-eyed" flower bears a woman's name ... Ikebana is a traditional art of arranging flowers in this country...
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Free Flashcards about HOLIDAYS & OBS. - StudyStack  THIS COUNTRY CELEBRATES QUEEN MARGRETHE'S BIRTHDAY ON ... AUTUMN BRINGS CHOYO-NO-SEKKU OR CHRYSANTHEMUM DAY IN THIS...
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Full text of "Things Japanese, being notes on various subjects ...  Such are, for instance, NotOy the name of the big promontoiy stretching out into the ..... It is related that in the 28th year of the Emperor Suinin (B.C. 2 of the popular ...... Mount Hiei- zan, Lake Biwa, Arashi-yama famous for its cherry-blossoms in ...... The Japanese fauna, both terrestrial and maritime, is unusually rich. Take a...
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KaBloom!: Revolution in the Flower Industry - DigitalCommons@SHU  supermarkets selling flowers, 16,432 plant nurseries and gar- den centers, 900 floral ... In 1989, Ruth Owades launched Calyx & Corolla, a high- end florist that...
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Silver Lining - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel  Feb 8, 2002 ... SALT LAKE CITY -- She skates with the elegance of a porcelain ice princess and ... Instead, she gathered her resolve to push on after losing to Tara Lipinski in the women's figure skating final in Nagano, Japan. ... Kwan wears a Chinese good luck charm around her neck given to her by her grandmother.
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Cherry blossom - Wikipedia  A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the ... Hanami festivals celebrate the beauty of the cherry blossom and for many are a ... Japan has a wide variety of cherry blossoms (sakura); well over 200 cultivars ... festivals to celebrate the blooming of the trees and the Japanese culture.
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She-we-na (Zuni Pueblo) Native American Kachina Doll (Paiyatemu)  ... such as the sun, the moon, plants, animals, or insects are called Kachinas. ... Kachina dolls, such as this example of Paiyatemu, the Zuni Sun Youth, ... This text refers to these objects: 03.325.4631; 03.325.4700 ... Objects of Myth and Memory ... kachina with the closest name, Chilili-and Chilili never carries or plays a flute.