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 Post subject: Hajimemashite :)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:29 pm 
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Shikomi
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Hello everyone, and nice to meet you all.

My name is Yvonne, and though I've been a member here since April, it is to my great shame that this is my second post (my first was posted half an hour ago...). Anyway, I'm twenty years old, living in Holland, Europe, and busy with my third year at the university in The Hague. I'm studying Communications & Multimedia Design (digital communications and stuff) and currently following a course on photography.

How did I end up here? Well... I'm not really sure. My fascination with the karyukai started when I read Memoirs of a Geisha. I became interested in the whole geisha thing and started dressing and kind of acting as one on IMVU, a community / RPG site I'm a member of. Teaching people there what a geisha is - or what I thought they were, back then. Looking for more information because I wanted to draw a maiko, I found IG (using the same username there, by the way), Youtube (I collect clips that have maiko and geiko in them), Flickr and eventually ended up here. Yay! :D

I do have other hobbies besides researching about the flower and willow world. I love drawing (both digital as traditional) and web design and coding. I also like musicals, RPG, chocolate :wink: and learning about cultures.

Well, that's it, I think.


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 Post subject: Re: Hajimemashite :)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:31 pm 
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Natori Geiko
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Joined: Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:14 pm
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Location: Germany
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Favorite Maiko: AyanoIchimomoKyouka
welcome kumiko ^_^
and you don't have to say "shame on me", because of memoirs, there are quite a lot of people that started like this (including me). that's the only good thing golden did :lol: at least there are some people thinking and making questions and not only buying what he's telling.
- but... not another discussion about this XD

welcome and i hope you'll stay around here ^_^


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 Post subject: Re: Hajimemashite :)
PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:56 pm 
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Location: Pinas
Favorite Geiko: Ichimame
Favorite Maiko: Kanoyumi
welcome kumiko!
I was first introduced to this tradition by reading MOG too... so no need to worry!
And I ended up being here as well. :chuuu:

hope you enjoy it here!


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 Post subject: Re: Hajimemashite :)
PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:02 am 
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Thank you very much for your kind welcome :) And, seeing I am not the only one who has gotten inspired by MoaG, I'll just delete that part of my original post ^_^


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 Post subject: Re: Hajimemashite :)
PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:23 pm 
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Welcome to the forum. I had watched the Memoirs movie and after doing research and joining another forum, I learned how inaccurate the movie was. So then I read the book and other books as well. So don't feel so bad. I bet most of the people here have the same story as you.

Welcome to the forum!


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