'Diaries of a Kagurazaka Woman' is an aesthetic photo diary of the 24 years that Yoko spent photographing the geisha in the Kagurazaka district. The Kagurazaka woman in the title is both Yoko at one and the same time a member of the community and a pair of witnessing eyes and the real Kagurazaka women, that is the geisha and the other females of the community. The works were born out of her response to the emotions that the sights, scents and sounds of the community evoked in Yoko and also the respect, sympathy and love that she had for the geisha.