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Originally Posted by feldon30
FLRedHeart, Thanks for that. Pasting Odoriko into Google Translate pointed in that direction.  |
Thanks feldon
, Google is my friend. It also separates the bland translation of "dancing girl"
from the cultural heritage of
Odoriko by linking to
this book:
"
The odoriko, on the other hand, were young teenage dancers who in the
1680's became extremely popular among daimyo and upper-class samurai
households. The parents of young girls sent them to dancing teachers at high
cost for the purpose of offering them for hire --without sexual acts-- at parties
in respectable samurai households. Not only did they earn good fees, but
sometimes they found an opportunity for stable employment in a fine
household. Such young girls would be considered part of a good trousseau
when the daimyo's daughter married into another daimyo houshold.
The popularity of odoriko resulted in the proliferation of unscrupulous parents
and daughters, however, by the end of the Genroku era (1688-1703) odoriko
ceased to adhere to their original purposes or standards.
...
[By the 1750's,] Odoriko who were no longer teenagers could no longer wear
long-sleeved kimono (though some of them pretended to be young indefinitely)
began to call themselves geisha."
Odoriko was originally a Japanese heirloom tomato if you keep digging according to
this blog, on the UC Agricultural and Natural Resources site, which references
Fine Gardening magazine. It would be nice to get the heirloom OP seeds to grow as well :-) That's likely an error and probably the author of the cited article confused the same hybrid on further thought, since
Sakata says it developed a new class of tomatoes in the 1980's which included Odoriko ... and Sun Road (considered a "super delicious tomato", LOL, time for another)
Cheers
