#chiyoha

[love1kimono]

Osaka Maiko Chiyoha 1911

Teruha debuted in the Shinbashi geisha district of Tokyo in 1911, but prior to that she was a maiko (apprentice geisha) by the name of Chiyoha in the Sōemon-chō geisha district of Osaka. She debuted in Osaka in 1909, after several months training as a minarai (watching apprentice), having been sold into the flower and willow world aged 12 years. To increase her commercial value, Chiyoha was dressed in the Kyoto style with a Kyōfu hairstyle and a darari obi.

[maigeiko]

HiiI! It's me again, I ask you a lot of questions. I recently stumbled upon a geisha who has an interesting story. I read her wikipedia page however... That didn't cover enough for me. In r/Geisha I found some information that she has an autobiography? Could you mabye give me a better insight of who she was? Her name is Chishō Takaoka! ^^

Hello again, Anon o/ Japanese Wikipedia has a full list of her five autobiographies. I doubt any of those were translated to English, but if you can read Japanese (opposed to me), it shouldn't be a problem for you! 『照葉懺悔』 1928 『照葉始末書』 1929 『黒髪懺悔』 1934 『祗王寺日記』 1973 『花喰鳥―京都祇王寺庵主自伝』 1984 『つゆ草日記―嵯峨野 祇王寺庵主自伝』 1992

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[dummy-kanji]

Osaka Maiko Chiyoha 1911 por Blue Ruin 1 Por Flickr: Teruha debuted in the Shinbashi geisha district of Tokyo in 1911, but prior to that she was a maiko (apprentice geisha) by the name of Chiyoha in the Sōemon-chō geisha district of Osaka. She debuted in Osaka in 1909, after several months training as a minarai (watching apprentice), having been sold into the flower and willow world aged 12 years. To increase her commercial value, Chiyoha was dressed in the Kyoto style with a Kyōfu hairstyle and a darari obi.

[maigeiko]

Five Osaka Maiko 1910 Five maiko (apprentice geisha) from Osaka wearing kuromontsuki (black crested kimonos). In the centre is Chiyoha, who was shortly to become famous as Teruha, when she relocated to Tokyo in the wake of a scandal.The characters they are holding appear to be a congratulatory message for a 30th anniversary of some kind. Motifs I can make out: left Maiko has a crane and sea shells, second from left  and the central Maiko probably have ivy, second from left: Chrysantemum?, right: sea shells with Genjimon

[2t2r]

Chishō Takaoka alias Tehura, la geisha qui s'est coupé un doigt pour son amant

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Chishō Takaoka alias Tehura, la geisha qui s'est coupé un doigt pour son amant

[geimei]

A portrait of Maiko Chiyoha of Osaka, taken in 1910 or 1911.

Chiyoha later moved to Tokyo and there became the famous Geisha Teruha, a very popular postcard-model and Geisha.

She was also known abroad for her unsteady life.

Teruha-san was born as Chishō Takaoka was born on April 22nd of 1896 in Nara, but her birth registration was made in Osaka, where she also grew up.

Her mother died when she was two and as her father was an alcohlic, she was mostly raised by her grandmother.

At 12 years old, Chishō-san’s father tricked her and sold her to an okiya in Osaka. She became their adopted daughter and debuted under the name of Chiyoha at age 14; her older sister was the famous Geisha Yachiyo I. She was considered a radiant beauty and soon gained popularity.

A year later, she fell in love with a man named Otomine, who was a successful kimono-seller. They eloped to Beppu, a popular onsen town.

Soon, Otomine discovered a picture of a Kabuki actor in her pocket mirror and became so jealous that he broke up with her.

Desperate, she cut off her little finger and gave it to him in an effort to prove her faithfulness; however, Otomine did not take her back.

Word of this soon spread and it became impossible for her to return to Osaka. A Geisha from the Shinbashi District of Tokyo called Kiyoka took her under her wings and she debuted as a Geisha in Tokyo under the name of Teruha.

She became a very popular postcard-model and an even more successful Geisha.

In 1919, at age 23, she married Suezo Oda, the manager of a Motion Picture Company.

They visited and travelled across the U.S.A. together, but she had an affair. After coming home to Japan, she attemptet suicide two times and her husband filed for divorce because of her affair. She started working as a Geisha again.

In the mid-1920s, she married a doctor and ran a bar in Osaka.

Her second marriage also failed and in 1935, at age 39, she entered the Bhuddist priesthood in Temple Kume and started calling herself her birth name again.

She then moved to the Giōji Temple in Kyoto and stayed their for the rest of her life. Giōji became a refuge for heartbroken women.

She died on October 22nd of 1994, at the high age of 98.

She wrote five autobiographies, starred in the movie “Ai no tobira” in 1923 and even inspired Jakucho Setouchi’s novel “Jotoku”.

She was also known abroad for her tumultuous and tragic life and was soon called “the nine-fingered Geisha”.

Source: Blue Ruin 1 on Flickr

[okiya]

Chiyoha 1910 (by Blue Ruin1)

Tatsuko Takaoka (高岡たつ子) (b.1896 – d.1995) was born in Nara and sold into the flower and willow world by her father, at the age of twelve, to the Tsujii-rō (辻井楼) teahouse in the Sōemon-chō (宗右衛門町) geisha district of Osaka. However, when her trigrams were read by a fortune-teller they were not auspicious, and the proprietress of Tsujii-rō, who was a former geisha by the name of O-Fuku (お福) out of the nearby Tomita-ya teahouse, arranged an exchange. Maiko Chiyoha (千代葉) was thus re-located to Tomita-ya (富田屋) shortly after her arrival in Osaka. This was only the beginning of a very tumultuous career as a geisha for the girl who was later to become Geisha Teruha (照葉) in the Shinbashi geisha district of Tokyo.

[thekimonogallery]

"Chiyoha (the name of the famous Tokyo geisha Teruha during the brief time that she was an Osaka maiko. She is wearing a darari obi, which is unusual for an Osaka maiko. I think that she must be dressed for an odori, especially as her obi-jime has an ichimatsu (chequerboard) pattern usually associated with dance or Kabuki."  About 1910's, Japan.  2nd and 3rd line of text via Blue Ruin 1 of Flickr.