  We investigate a relation of the contravariant geometry to the emergent
gravity from noncommutative gauge theories. We give a refined formulation of
the contravariant gravity and provide solutions to the contravariant Einstein
equation. We linearize the equation around background solutions, including
curved ones. A noncommutative gauge theory on the Moyal plane can be rewritten
as an ordinary gauge theory on a curved background via the Seiberg-Witten map,
which is known as the emergent gravity. We show that this phenomenon also
occurs for a gauge theory on a noncommutative homogeneous K\"ahler background.
We argue that the resulting geometry can be naturally described by the
contravariant geometry under an identification of the fluctuation of the
Poisson tensor with the field strength obtained by the Seiberg-Witten map.
These results indicate that the contravariant gravity is a suitable framework
for noncommutative spacetime physics.
