Geisha: Resistensi Perempuan Seni Tradisi*

Fitria Pratiwi

Alumnus Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia

Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Jakarta

fitriapratiwi_pipit@yahoo.com

Abstract

Women and art traditions have a close relation because lots of art tradition use women as a subject to long lived. Named gandrung, ronggeng, tledhek, sintren, and many others art traditions in Indonesia also use women as a subject to long lived. In Japan, this part played by geisha. Women with white face make up, honongi kimono, shimada hair do, silk tabi, and varnished zori keep entertain the guests from high class society with geisha dances or a gentle plucking shamisen. Because of their played as men entertainer, people thought what geisha do is prostitute. From the eyes of Feminist multicultural, we will see what geisha do in society which is drawn by two novels that is Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden and Kembang Jepun by Remy Sylado. These novels described two geisha in two different places, that is Gion (Japan) and Surabaya (Indonesia) also bargain process and geisha disjunctive against patriarchy system.

Keywords: geisha, art tradition, recistant, feminism multicultural.