抄録
This article aims to examine the succession of 'sui' which is an important aesthetic idea and has played an important role in the geisha community. The article is based on the life story by a former domestic worker who used to work in Kamishitiken, one of the five geisha communities of Kyoto during the period of high economic growth in Japan. Japan achieved an unexampled high level of economic growth from the 1950's through the 1970's. But some suspect that Japanese people may have lost a high cultural standard of living after the economic growth. Geisha streets located in the Kyoto city border are appreciated nowadays since they are clearly contrasted with the changed urban areas due to the economic growth. According to the worker's narratives she had to work hard as a part of the geisha community and the 'sui' had been lost its cultural value during the period of rapid changes but it seems that 'sui' had been not succeeded even in the geisha streets by the end of the economic growth.
