Cosplay and Traditional Japan
When I first began cosplaying, I came upon a BBC Documentary entitled "Geisha Girl", which followed the life of Yukina, a girl who is trying to become a maiko, or apprentice geisha. Right away, I was mesmerized by her world and how she struggled so valiantly to become this pinnacle of Japanese beauty and feminine perfection. I am not ordinarily a girl who is very elegant or graceful, and I so admired how beautiful geiko and maiko were, that I thought if I could be like them, even in some small way, I too could become a girl of quiet grace.
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