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Women of the Pleasure Quarters
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Women of the Pleasure Quarters (2001) (edit title/settings)

The Secret History of the Geisha

by Lesley Downer (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . But as denizens of a world... read more

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More than a thousand years ago, long before geisha were even thought of, Kyoto was the center of an extraordinarily effete, decadent, and promiscuous culture which transformed love into an art form and beauty into a cult.

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  1. Lesley Downer (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Broadway Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0767904893
Page Count: 304

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