Crossword-Solution: MAIKO 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Still, I hoped the Master might be willing to take them, seeing they have become curious; for there are no more shirabyoshi, and the maiko of these times wear no such robes.' 'Of that matter,' the good painter exclaimed, 'you must not think at all! No; I am glad to have this present chance of paying a small part of my old debt to you.

Here sat the musicians dressed as geisha girls, and the dancers, called Maiko, were also clad in the same manner, with long artistic kimonos and flowers in their hair.

The formal exercises were mostly conducted by geisha and Maiko girls, three officiating as musicians, several more dancing, and others serving as attendants.

These efforts however are due, not to the will or desire of the _maiko_, the poor little girl who is being trained, but to the persistence of her owner.

Some of the geisha were women perhaps twenty years old, wearing handsome dark kimonos which they generally carried with a great deal of style, but others were little _maiko_, dancing girls, in brilliant-coloured kimonos with the yard-long sleeves of youth.