He had a soft spot for geishas.

他喜欢艺妓。

Yeah. Try doubling that. It's like, back off buddy she's a waitress not a geisha.

那就再加倍吧。一边去，兄弟，她只是服务生，又不是艺妓。

Soon, however, female geisha began to appear and quickly took over the profession.

然而，很快，女性艺伎开始出现并迅速接管了这个职业。

However, patrons of the Oiran gradually began to gravitate towards the less expensive and much more socially accessible geisha.

不管怎样，花魁的顾客逐渐开始偏向于价格更低，社交性更高的艺伎。

Hurry up, you look like a geisha.

快点， 你看起来像个艺妓。

There are still geisha today – but only a handful remain compared to their golden days, less than 200.

今天仍然存在艺伎——但和她们的黄金时代相比，现在已经屈指可数了，不到200人。

It is here, in this historic entertainment quarter, that you’ll begin to catch glimpses of one of Kyoto’s most alluring traditions, the geisha.

就是在这里，这个古代的娱乐场所，您可以开始稍微窥探京都最迷人的传统景色之一，艺妓。

Young apprentice geisha were (and are) known as maiko, a term roughly translating to " woman of dance" .

年轻的学徒艺妓被称为舞伎（maiko），这个名词粗略地翻译为“ 舞蹈的女性”。

I can't believe you are going to Kyoto for the summer to learn to be a geisha.

真不敢相信夏天你要去京东学做一个艺妓。

The Oiran even lodged an official complaint with the government, stating that the geisha were taking their business by stealing their customers.

花魁甚至向政府提出了官方投诉，称艺伎是在通过窃取客户来开展业务。

To satisfy both professions, the government passed a rather intriguing set of laws stating what geisha and oiran could and could not do.

为了满足这两个职业，政府通过了一系列有趣的法律，规定了艺伎和花魁可以做什么，不能做什么。

One of the jobs that has been available to women for centuries is that of a geisha, who entertain men with conversation and song.

数世纪来妇女能做的一样工作是艺妓，就是用谈话和唱歌来取悦男人。

The front and back neck of a Maiko's kimono has a red collar, but when girls become geisha, they change it to dazzling white.

舞伎和服的前颈和后颈都为红色的领子，但当女孩们成为艺伎后，就会改成耀眼的白色。

(Voice-over): Earlier this year, the historic city of Kyoto had to close off some alleys to combat Geisha paparazzi, a name given to visitors snapping photos of geisha without permission.

(画外音）： 今年早些时候，历史名城京都不得不关闭一些小巷，以打击“艺伎狗仔队”，这是对未经许可拍摄艺伎的游客的称呼。

This is the famous shrine in Kagurazaka. This is the red shrine. Back then there used to be a lot of geishas, entertainers, performers came to this shrine and said their prayers.

这是神乐板有名的神社。这是座红色的神社。以前常常有许多艺伎、艺人、表演者来这座神社并且祈祷。

In this sense, despite the huge cultural significance and traditional value of the geisha, it seems to not be an institution that is faring well with the development of modern society.

从这个意义上讲，尽管艺伎具有巨大的文化意义和传统价值，但它似乎并不与现代社会的发展相适应。

By the 1800s, the popularity of the oiran had waned, while the geisha had now become vital providers of hospitality and entertainment at dinner parties for large companies and government officials.

到19世纪，艺伎的知名度开始下降，而现在的艺伎已成为大型公司和政府官员的晚宴上表演和娱乐的重要提供者 。

Geisha (meaning art do-er or artist) existed as early as the 7th century in Japan, although the first modern geisha only began to appear in the large cities from the 17th century.

艺伎（意为卖艺人或艺术工作者）早在7世纪就存在于日本，尽管最早的现代艺伎只是在17世纪才开始出现在大城市中。

Quite often the daughters of lowly peasants would become geisha, as their parents were typically keen to not have an extra mouth to feed, and at the same time would receive income from their daughter's work.

贫农的女儿常常会成为艺伎，因为他们的父母通常不愿多吃东西，同时又会从女儿的工作中获得收入。

We know what the original, traditional geishas looked like thanks to old scrolls and prints, as well as through the words of the poet Ihara Saikaku, one of the most prominent figures of the 17th-century revival of Japanese literature.

原始的传统艺伎形象归功于旧式卷轴和版画，以及诗人井原西鹤的言辞，井原西鹤是17世纪日本文学复兴中最杰出的人物之一 。