Konnichiwa everyone.
Today I attended a very important and special O-zashiki banquet. And that cannot be anything else than: A misedashi O-zashiki! (Misedashi is the debut of a new maiko) And so I headed to Hanafusa Ochaya in Miyagawa-cho.
This special banquet was hosted upstairs, in a special banquet room. The room was also decorated cutely as we sat down to have some tea and sake.
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| The maikosan in red is Kikutsuru |
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The maiko in a more casual outfit is Hoshiteru-san from Kaishi Chou! Also, on the opposite side of the table, the maiko in purple is Kikuyumi-san, also from Hanafusa
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So, we had some tea and talked for a while, like normally. The new maiko had been sitting next to us, smiling nervously. Kikuyuu-san played the shamisen, and as usually, it was very graceful.
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| Geiko Kikuyuu-san playing the shamisen |
Then, the special part of the O-zashiki started. Okaasan Kikuyuu walked to the stage, and introduced us her newest maikosan, Kikumaru-san! She looked stunning in her formal hikizuri, which I heard was custom made for her.
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| Maikosan Kikumaru performing a dance for her debut |
Kikumaru-san performed a dance for her debut, accompanied by shamisen music. The dance was about the hard decision of leaving the normal behind and joining an okiya, in order to become a beautiful maikosan one day.
In her dance, she also told us, that even though now she is a maiko, she still has a long way ahead of her, one day to become a full- fledged geikosan (geisha)!
After the performance we had sake, and wished Kikumaru-san good luck and success in her maiko, and one day hopefully also geiko, career.
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| There were also cakes and cookies in the ochaya for the special occassion |
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