Meet Eitaro. The 26-year-old comes from a family of geisha: his mother and grandmother both practiced the centuries-old Japanese tradition, in which women trained in the gei, or classical Japanese arts, host parties of men. Eitaro took over for his mother after she died of cancer, and is now apparently one of Japan’s most sought after geisha, both for performances and television appearances. Eitaro’s mother’s vision was to restore geishas to prominence, after their numbers dwindled from 80,000 to approximately 1,000 in a difficult and changing entertainment industry.
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Adjective + する
This construction of adjective+する refers to causing something to become large, expensive, beautiful, or whatever. As with the adjective+なる construction, い-adjectives go into their ―く form, and な-adjectives go into their に form, as shown by the following examples:
長い（ながい）―＞ 長くする （ながくする） to make long
便利（べんり）―＞ 便利にする （べんりにする） to make convenient
静か（しずか）―＞ 静かにする （しずかにする） to make quiet
甘い（あまい）―＞ 甘くする （あまくする） to make sweet
＊These constructions are sometimes ambiguous, and only the context they’re in can clear up the meaning.
きれいにしましょう。
Let’s make it beautiful OR Let’s do it beautifully.
早くしましょう。
Let’s make it so that it’s fast OR Let’s do it quickly.
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