Forbidden Kyoto S01 E05 Life as a TAYU-DIVA Beyond Geisha

This is the fifth in our popular series of programs taking a fresh, distinctive look at forbidden worlds of Kyoto that can usually only be glimpsed for fleeting moments. We have already visited the Gion and other entertainment districts, the home of a tea ceremony school and other usually unvisitable places but now we penetrate Shimabara itself at the very pinnacle of the Japanese entertainment pyramid, the most inaccessible place of them all.