She had already put split-toe on the white socks she would wear their kimono with and prepared, her hair put up. Hired, transfer of Kamaishi to entertain a group of four honor of a colleague, she had to just the right song, a young Samurai their first battle to steel took.
But a tsunami of this city 35 minutes would gobble up and, like Kamaishi during this short period of at least 15 big aftershocks trembled, the Geisha, Tsuyako Ito, 84, fought to survive. They lived before by three tsunamis in Kamaishi, Iwate, a town that have destroyed the waves with regularity, in the course of centuries, and as a girl, the them their grandmother stories of large 1896 tsunami would have heard.
"My grandmother said that a tsunami like a wide-open mouth that swallows everything in its path," said Ms. Ito was from a local hospital, where they are being treated for asthma, "so that victory comes for those who flee as quickly as possible."
Her mother she carried on her back to safety at the time of the first wife of Ito's tsunami in 1933. This time, after their legs out, was an admirer of Ms. Ito on the back to higher altitudes carried out. Ms. Ito, who had planned to retire on her 88th birthday, a milestone in Japan, survived their fourth - and "most frightening" - tsunami.
The waves swept aside however their shamisen, a three-stringed instrument and kimono, the two tools to a Geisha art.
It is assumed that the recent tsunami about 1,300 people in Kamaishi, whose tiefer a dusty ghost town have turned into nearby areas, where the smell of ruined buildings now mingles sea which, have killed.
The birthplace of Japan's steel industry, Kamaishi played a key role in the country's modernization and militarization, so that it was the first stop on mainland Japan of American warships during the second war. During Japan of the post-war boom swelled the city's population as it easily overcame the tooth of the two tsunamis.
Kamaishi fame which his main employer rugby team, Nippon for its delicious seafood, the award-winning due to steel and its redirects.
As you have declined Japan's assets in the last two decades, Kamaishi, Iwate's case was faster and steeper.
Its population and almost 100,000 two generations ago has now fallen under 40,000 and aging. Not many who have lost homes and businesses here are likely to remain.
But Mrs Ito to sing and dance again in Kamaishi, Iwate vowed. A famous beauty, they both danced and played the shamisen, while the most geishas were just to play the shamisen, said Setsuko Kanazawa, whose Familie Saiwairo that has the Ryotei, where it leads.
Cultural preservationists, here it is the guardian of a local culture, which was quickly disappear.
The last Ryotei in Kamaishi, Saiwairo was also the most exclusive. It was built in 1894 on the highest point on a surface, which would be dotted with bars, brothels and other Ryoteis. While tsunamis's Saiwairo neighbours washed away they never reached its first floor.
It was Saiwairo that Mrs Ito began an apprenticeship at the age of 14 years.
"I loved to dance," she said. "And I just wanted to be a leading Geisha in Kamaishi, Iwate."
The truth, whispered for decades within the family at home, said's Satoshi Ito, Ms. Ito darker, nephew. Ms. Ito's father ran a small construction business and her nephew said, talked with Japan's gangsters, the Yakuza.
"He streets here and there, would set certain areas, control of Yakuza", said Mr Ito, 63, lived with his aunt here but is now at a shelter evacuation remain.
"Her father should have told her that she was suitable for life," he added. "But it hard, I think that he did some debt to ensure it."
Suzuki Kantaro contributed reporting.
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