Why do Japanese paint their face white?

Also question is, do geishas still exist in Japan?

Geisha can be found in several cities acrossJapan, including Tokyo and Kanazawa, but the former capitalof Kyoto remains the best and most prestigious place to experiencegeisha, who are known there as geiko. Five major geikodistricts (hanamachi) remain in Kyoto.

Furthermore, are geishas respected? ?) or geigi (??) are traditional femaleJapanese entertainers. They are skilled at different Japanese arts,like playing classical Japanese music, dancing and poetry. Somepeople believe that geisha are prostitutes, this however isfalse. Geisha are very respected and it is hard tobecome one.

Then, do geishas get paid?

Their attentions don't come cheap: the bill for anevening in an ochaya runs into hundreds, sometimes thousands ofpounds; star-struck men have been known to bankrupt themselves inplaces like this. The youngest of the three, 17-year-old Miehinna,is a maiko, or apprentice, still three years from being afull geisha.

Is Mizuage still practiced?

??, lit. "hoisting fromwater") was a ceremony undergone by a Japanese maiko (apprenticegeisha) to signify her coming of age. Mizuage has been longconnected with the loss of virginity of a maiko, but thispractice was made illegal along with other acts ofprostitution in 1959.