By HIDEO SATO/ Staff Writer
September 9, 2020 at 08:00 JST
Geisha trainee Masano from Kyoto’s Gion-Higashi district covers her mouth with a Kyoto-style fan in the city’s Higashiyama Ward. (Hideo Sato)
KYOTO--A geisha with her face covered by a plain surgical face mask hardly fits the traditional dainty image of the practitioners of the centuries-old art form that is largely hidden from the public eye. [Read More]
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