Article: Peabody Essex Museum explores Japanese performers' inner lives.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: MARY JO PALUMBO

They entertain in private teahouses by invitation only.

Their services are expensive.

Their sleekly coiffed black hair and stark white faces, painted red lips and lush silk kimonos seem to hail from a distant century.

They are geisha - mysterious, exotic icons of the Orient.

But who are they, really?

A new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem attemptsto explore misperceptions about geisha and to recognize their creative accomplishments.

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