Both "In Character" and out, the Geisha and Maiko were the models behind almost all Studio "Character Studies" and Portraits in old Meiji and early Taisho-era Japan. During the late Taisho era (1912-26), picture postcards of Takarazuka Girls and Movie Stars began competing with those of the Geisha, but the Geisha clung tight to their photographic place in Japan's world of popular women. My own pho