Blog of a geisha

It seems that to write a blog that really attracks attention and lots of readers, you need to be a prostitute. Or a high-class Japanese hooker in training.


Following on the orgasmic success of Belle de Jour, a funny, clever, honest prostitute (yes, clearly they can be that), comes Blog of a Geisha. This 18-year old Japanese girl is receiving hundreds of thousands of hits on her blog.

Considering that the blog is written in Japanese, this is no mean feat.
Ichimame is a maiko, or an apprentice geisha, which is a hostess trained to entertain men by singing, dancing and well… other, more intimate activities. In other words, she is a high-class hooker in training.

She works at Ichi, a genteel teahouse in the Kamishichiken district, one of Kyoto’s five geisha districts or hanamachi (flower towns).

She started the “Maiko Blog” on the teahouse Web site in December 2005 to inform people about her world and to encourage people to visit Kyoto to see maiko perform.
And as the Arthur Golden, author of the best-selling book Memoirs of a Geisha could’ve told her, people really like to know about the myserious world of the geisha. In September 2006 alone, her blog received 300,000 hits.

Check it out if you can read Japanese...