Originally Posted by LapLap
For someone who for whom 'geisha' and 'kabuki' are indistiguishable blurred concepts, I wonder if Nihon Buyo (the often overlooked discipline that forms part of the Big Three of Japanese Theatre along with 'Kabuki' and 'Noh' - there's also Bunraku Puppet Theatre - rent out Takeshi Kitano's film 'Dolls' to get a taste) is what the OP is really after.
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Another source of information about geisha is a book that is now probably out of print but possibly available in libraries, namely Geisha, by Liza Dalby, an American woman who actually trained and lived as a geisha in the 1970s.