Enlightment Geishas during Meiji Period

At the end of the 19th century, male geishas had disappeared with the Tokugawa period and it was from this moment that geishas, during the Meiji Period, as we currently understand them spread throughout Japan.

My project will focus on the important role played by geishas during the Meiji Restoration, when the government was no longer in the hand of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family and passed back to the emperor. A large part of the revolutionary plans were hatched in the tea houses, where the geishas worked, famous for their discretion, so that after the success of the Restoration, the geishas were widely favored by the new Japanese classes, as thanks, spending many of them to be the concubines of the new men in power of the government emerged from the Restoration.