http://www.zompist.com/gen.html – checked this and somehow got http://conlang.org/resources/ which bumped me into: http://www.zompist.com/chinawords.html when notices that perhaps geisha has “art” in it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=geisha+etymology
http://www.memidex.com/geisha – towards the end of the “page” where it seems like “art” refers to entertainment/perfomative-acts like singing & dancing..
I now wonder if this might also have anything to do with the survival thoughts/concerns? eg – http://itchy.5p.lt/academic-anthropological-view-of-art-and-survival