The sound of drumming rises to a fever pitch, fluttering rhythms in enigmatic time signatures shaking the century-old rafters of In Kanazawa House. Before me on the stage are two geishas — or geikos, as they’re known in this city — one playing the taiko drum, the other accompanying her on the banjo-like shamisen while singing. It’s an interplay unchanged since the 17th century, when wealth flowed through Kanazawa, the seat of the influential Maeda clan. Samurai were hired for protection, geikos for entertainment. The historic districts in which they lived and worked are beautifully...…The sound of drumming rises to a fever pitch, fluttering rhythms in enigmatic time signatures shaking the century-old rafters of In Kanazawa House. Before me on the stage are two geishas — or geikos, as they’re known in this city — one playing the taiko drum, the other accompanying her on the banjo-like shamisen while singing. It’s an interplay unchanged since the 17th century, when wealth flowed through Kanazawa, the seat of the influential Maeda clan. Samurai were hired for protection, geikos for entertainment. The historic districts in which they lived and worked are beautifully...WW…