What is the service scope of Japanese geisha? Why do ordinary women envy geisha?

I majored in Japanese as an undergraduate. Before learning Japanese and Japanese culture, I thought that Japanese geisha in anti-Japanese TV dramas were prostitutes like China. At that time, I didn't know what their job nature was, and I didn't know their names. I only knew that there were men. People in TV series also use this to ambush.

Japanese geisha is a profession that existed a long time ago. At first, it was only for men, and later it developed into a job for women.

At first, this job was very popular in Japan, but later, due to the financial crisis, this job began to decline. Although there are very few people engaged in this job so far, everyone respects and admires the people who do this job.

In our impression, the understanding of Japanese geisha comes from watching Japanese TV. Geisha's face is very white because they didn't have electric lights in the past. Only in this way can guests carefully study the makeup of geisha. The service scope of geisha is generally the guests in the box, but the choice scope of the guests is not decided by themselves, but by their mothers. And most of them don't expect to sell themselves, just accompany guests to dinner, pour wine for them, and talk and laugh with them.

There is a movie "Memoirs of a Geisha", which shows us intuitively how Japanese geisha live and grow into geisha.

But I don't know why many girls envy geisha. I only know that even if geisha have a high income, few Japanese girls do it. I think one reason is that Japanese geisha need to dress up, clothes and headdresses, sometimes weighing more than 40 kilograms. After such work, they will be exhausted physically and mentally.

I hope people can have a minimum of respect for a job and don't speculate maliciously.