Odoriko

Odoriko, the Dancing Girl, was a fabled geisha. She was a beautiful teenager from a peasant family in a region stalked by famine who began to dance for samurai in a tea-house. Her dance was so famed that she earned enough to buy the tea-house herself, renamed it as the Dancing Girl, and began training other peasant girls in her dancing skills. Odoriko became the first okaasan (madam), and The Dancing Girl was the first okiya (geisha house).