This isn't my site but I just found it and joined. It looks like it had potential but needs more members. If you like Memoirs of a Geisha, you should like this rp.

It's 1953, the wold war is over, but the battles we face as people continue. What defines us? The life we live or the choices we make? Are they really that different? Who decides our value in this world? Why do they get to judge?

Japan had always been an intriguing place to Westerners, and ever since WWII ended, they've been coming in one after the other. Some to visit, some to stay. Many choose to stay in a larger city, but there are a few who have decided to make a home in the city of Iiota. A town that's been out of the eye for centuries now is being sought after for it's culture. However with the arrival of new blood comes the changing of that culture. And with change comes failure to accept it.

Western women have come into town wishing to capitalize on their twist of the geisha life. So far they have put a serious dent in the history of geisha. While some applaud their spin on the tradition of geisha, others find it horrendous, a rape of Japanese culture all for profit. They consider the women to be nothing but whores in kimonos; no better than the prostitutes.

The okiya of Aoi Sasoon is a real traditional geisha house that finds its Western competition/imitation to be a disgrace, while its once floundering competition is trying to compete with the Western companion houses by becoming more liberal themselves. This disgusts the geisha of Sasoon's house. Even the prostitutes are claiming to have upped their standards as to appear more like true geisha. Classy prostitutes, the geisha seriously doubt that.

Each house has its loyal patrons and its patrons who have yet to stick to a girl or house. It’s a battle for money, bragging rights, and fancy titles, while the regular townspeople, foreign or not, are in the middle of this cultural and innovative clash. This isn’t an attempt at a renaissance; it’s an attempt at all out war of pride.

Which side will you take?