The "first play", in which a geisha from Nagasaki City plays the shamisen and dances, was performed without an audience to prevent infection with the new coronavirus.
In Maruyama, Nagasaki City, which once prospered as a hanamachi, Nagasaki Kenban, who trains and arranges geisha, invites customers every year to perform the "first play", which is the beginning of geisha work.
This year was held on the 4th with only 12 geisha without guests to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus.
The geisha perform a dance as they sing a shamisen and sing a song celebrating the New Year, with a geisha wearing a black crested kimono and a hairpin in their hair and wearing a mask to prevent infection. Did.
Finally, we prayed for a peaceful year, and all of us tightened the three, and finished the "first play".
Mr. Kikuna, who became a geisha last year, said, "I've been at the bottom of the corona last year, so I'll do my best, thinking that this is just going up."