url='/Videos/2941.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2941.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Miyako Odori 1url='/Videos/2943.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2943.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Miyako Odori 2 Diana and I skipped off to Kyoto last Friday to see the "Dances of Spring" in Gion. It was an amazing performance that featured about forty maiko and geiko, otherwise known as apprentice geisha. (Geiko are the same as maiko, except that they're at least 20 years old.) A couple of weeks ago we checked out a kabuki performance, which was incredible, but cameras weren't allowed. So I was very excited that they didn't have such a rule at the Kobu Kaburenjo Theater. The experience began with a shortened tea ceremony and then a stroll around the adjacent gardens. After about half an hour we were ushered to our seats and the performance kicke
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