The Beauty Of The Rising Sun

For many thousands of years, the Japanese people have devoted themselves to the perfection of everything they pursue. They are rather intriguing as a people. They are among the glorious civilizations that have put higher standards of what beauty ought to be. From their architecture, to their culinary expertise; everything is beautiful. Even for something as violent as war, they have captured the beauty of its nature through its martial philosophies espoused in Bushido, the code of the samurai. There is but a simple explanation as to why they have attained such high standards for beauty. It is because Japan itself is not a fertile land but almost barren and cursed with frequent and grave natural calamities. Therefore, it has been inculcated to the minds of Japanese people that they have to do so much with what little they have.

Speaking of beauty in Japan, nothing could be more beautiful than the beauties themselves. Yes indeed, I am talking about their geishas. Geishas are considered to be a class that has been the personification of beauty throughout the Land of the Rising Sun. But they were not who they were before. During the pre-Edo period, there was no geisha class that only emphasizes their gifts for beauty. There were only courtesans before, women who exist to give sexual pleasure to men in whatever ways necessary. However, with the evolution of Japan's samurai culture, the emergence of the geisha came about along with that advancement of their civilization. The Geisha class of female artisans already came into existence around the early decades of the Tokugawa Era. These women are devoted to being the walking art form, their faces daubed with foundation cosmetics and their bodies covered with exotic or sometimes kaleidoscopic robes. One would think of them today as the famed American Top Models, though their level of intellect is highly incomparable from the former. More than their superficial appearance itself; these geisha women make use of their skills in singing, playing the Japanese lute, dancing, acting, poetry analysis and even philosophical argument. Needless to say, they are extremely very smart compared to our contemporary notion of what being a model is.

Speaking of cosmetics, a Japanese geisha often use rice powder. Japanese women have a naturally light pigment and the contrast of rice powder on their skin is not that bizarre. However, Japanese fashion before is centered on excessive light pigment. For someone of their pale skin tone, it accentuates their beauty more than it ruins it. Throughout Asia, the Japanese has some degree of supremacy as far as aesthetics are concerned. In the past, perhaps no woman is far more beautiful than a geisha, who lives in her own floating world, with her external appearance as her asset. But as a woman in her prerogative as human, she is only floating in her emptiness, never to know love that unites one man and on e woman, as she is bound to regale many eyes who look upon her.

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