thumb|Kyoto geisha Toshimana holding a Nōh mask, wearing full make-up and a katsura (wig) is a powder foundation traditionally used by kabuki actors, geisha, and their apprentices. The word is written with kanji meaning "white powder", and is pronounced as the word for white () with the honorific prefix .
thumb|Kyoto geisha Toshimana holding a Nōh mask, wearing full make-up and a katsura (wig) is a powder foundation traditionally used by kabuki actors, geisha, and their apprentices. The word is written with kanji meaning "white powder", and is pronounced as the word for white () with the honorific prefix .
When worn by geisha and , is notable for only partially covering the nape of the neck, as an uncovered nape was traditionally considered erotic in Japanese culture.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).