A Glimpse Inside Kyoto’s Floating World
– a snippet from my chat with Katsuharu (a senior maiko in the Gion Kobu district) It would be the first time to visit my ochaya (teahouse) in the Gion Kobu since the coronavirus outbreak. I have been going there for almost a quarter century. The Okaasan, (proprietress) has a real mother-like aura and her