Ladies of the night
Excerpt form:
THE LIVING CULTURE OF GEISHA
……“Click”. I hung up the pay phone again and started relaying the directions for the third time….we were lost again in Kyoto. We were also running embarrassingly late for Peter Macintosh’s night walk in the traditional Geisha district of Kyoto.
In my mind, I thought it would be a relatively easy walk from our Royokan across the bridge over the Kamo-gawa river and back to near where we had been the night before for dinner. Turns out it was a whole lot further into the outskirts of the city plus the group was on a constant move heading into dusk. The sky looked fantastic turning from a spectrum of pinks and purple to azure as the final shine of a setting sun reflected off the roofline of an amazing mix of ancient buildings each with their own story to tell.
We turned a corner and finally, what looked like a gathering of Gygen had emerged up ahead, surely this was the group. Sheepishly I approached the bearded man who was addressing a bunch of people around him, “Hi Peter?” “Yes” He said reassuringly as if to say ‘don’t worry it happens all the time’. Letting out a sigh of relief I shook his hand and apologised for our lateness. I’m thinking ‘better late than never right’?
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Paul Blazey is an artist & travel writer for Urban Globetrotter, he also makes a mean pasta from scratch!
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