#// it's briefly touched in the past arc but sayuri is frightened by it

[usagimen]

idk maybe later a meta on sayuri's inherited techinque will be written since it's rarely discussed. after all, clan kobayashi was originally assassins && they rely strongly on deception to survive. so, essentially, she steals another face to wear it. young girls who show promise are instinctively trained in becoming a geiko. thus, that is how they select candidates within the family, they are not treated differently, but viewed as the pinnacle of 'beauty'. as sayuri repeats a thousand times, it's always a lie && the truth is far more rotten than anyone could imagine. their inherited techinque is also used to cosmetically alter themselves && the body, she does so by switching the hue of her eyes to a more intense shade of green, that's it.