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Sep 26, 2011 · Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike.
live the life of a geisha, a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and richly glorious rewards. Many say I was the best geisha of my generation; I was certainly the most successful. And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave. It is a story that I have long wanted to tell.
I'm waiting for Geisha, A Life in the mail for months, not surprising given the global situation, but I've been reading Liza Dalby's Geisha and it's fantastic! I also have a book called The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning by Kelly M. Foreman that is written in an academic/musicology genre.
Sep 30, 2002 · This book is Mineko's autobiography and details her life as a geisha from childhood up until her retirement at age 29 as a protest against the lack of education and the oppressive working life of a geisha.
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Sep 27, 2011 · Geisha : a life. by. Iwasaki, Mineko, 1949-; Ouchi, Rande Brown. Publication date. 2002. Topics. Iwasaki, Mineko, 1949-, Geishas. Publisher. New York : Atria Books.
Oct 15, 2002 · Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years,...
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Books. Geisha: A Life. Mineko Iwasaki. Simon and Schuster, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in...
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