GEISHA and MAIKO

Topic: The young women who enter the geisha world aspiring to become geisha are called maiko, usually defined as apprentice geisha/geiko. Published Date: [March 31, 2006, 2:41 pm] [source, archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090901085848/http://www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/108325.html)