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  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a... (more)
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  Geisha

  A Life

  by Mineko Iwasaki

  No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now. "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave." Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's... (more)
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  Autobiography of a Geisha

  by Sayo Masuda

  The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geisha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of sex for sale, unadorned by the trappings of wealth and celebrity. Sayo Masuda has written the first full-length... (more)
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  Geisha

  by Liza Crihfield Dalby

  In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century.
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  Snow Country

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
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  Geisha

  by Lesley Downer

  Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, we have been intrigued by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of fictional creations from Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha". The reality of the geisha's existence has rarely been described. Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but literally "arts people". Their accomplishments might include singing, dancing or playing a... (more)
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  Women of the Pleasure Quarters

  The Secret History of the Geisha

  by Lesley Downer

  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 defined by silence and mystery, real geisha are notoriously difficult to meet and even to find. As a result, their history... (more)
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  A Geisha's Journey

  My Life As a Kyoto Apprentice

  by Naoyuki Ogino

  This is the story of a contemporary Japanese teenager who, in a search for an identity, became fascinated with the world of geisha, and discovered in herself the will and the commitment to embark on the many years of apprenticeship necessary to become one. It is also the story of a young Japanese photographer who grew up overseas, and who also was captivated by the traditional lives of these women who choose to... (more)
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  Geisha : A Living Tradition

  by Kyo?ko Aihara

  This stunning, illustrated book provides revealing insight into their remarkable world, exploring every aspect of their lives.
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  Madame Sadayakko

  The Geisha Who Bewitched the West

  by Lesley Downer

  A critically acclaimed author tells the enthralling true story of the real Madame Butterfly, a woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the West. At twenty-nine, she captivated the world’s stage. From San Francisco to New York, Paris, and Berlin, audiences thrilled to her mesmeric acting and exquisite dancing. She performed for the American President and for the Prince of... (more)
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  Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art

  by Jodi Cobb

  Here, brought vividly to life, is an icon of Japanese culture and custom--the geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman. A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there are a thousand at most. Happily, Jodi Cobb is able to show us--before they vanish--both the ceremonial world of the geisha in Tokyo and Kyoto and their private world as few outsiders have ever seen it. Many of the... (more)
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  90-Day Geisha (My time as a Tokyo hostess)

  by Chelsea Haywood

  An introspective journey into the glamorous world—and temptations—of Japanese nightlife, by former model Chelsea Haywood. The hard-drinking, drug-taking, all-night culture that dominates Tokyo’s Roppongi district can be a surreal place. Overworked Japanese business men will pay handsomely for the services of a hostess—someone to talk to, someone to provide hot towels and drinks, and sometimes just a companion... (more)
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  The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient

  by Sheridan Prasso

  "<A> persuasive, timely book.... Prasso makes clear the destructive nature of stereotypes about Asia and the social, cultural, and political ramifications of allowing them to fester unchallenged." ( Boston Globe ) Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious-from the tea-pouring, sexually available geisha... (more)
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  Die wahre Geschichte der Geisha.

  by Mineko Iwasaki

  Mineko Iwasaki war mehr als ein Jahrzent Japans berühmteste Geisha. Im Alter von fünf Jahren verlässt sie ihr Elternhaus, um in der dreihundert Jahre alten Tradition der Geishakunst unterrichtet zu werden. In ihrer Autobiographie enthüllt sie nun als erste Geisha die wahren Geheimnisse ihres Standes. Der ergreifende Bericht einer Frau, die nie eine Kindheit hatte.
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  Geisha , a Life

  Amazon.com ReviewNow in her 50s, Mineko Iwasaki was one of the most famed geishas of her generation (and the chief informant for
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  Kiharu. Memoiren einer Geisha.

  by Kiharu Nakamura

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  Memoirs of a Geisha

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  Geisha: A Photographic History, 1880-1910

  by Stanley Burns

  Japanese geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-nineteenth century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travelers. Tourists desired images of landscapes and traditional Japanese culture, which Japanese photographers provided. They created souvenir albums consisting of hand-colored photographs individually chosen by the tourist. Many are so... (more)
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  Cloud of Sparrows

  by Takashi Matsuoka

  Once in a great while a new novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, with flawless storytelling and a unique understanding of another place and time. Takashi Matsuoka is just such a writer. His magnificent new novel, set amid the violence and beauty of nineteenth-century Japan, takes us beyond the epic tradition of James Clavell’s Shogun and into a majestic realm of samurai and... (more)
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  Samurai Detective: Book 2

  The Demon in the Teahouse

  by Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler

  The beautiful, mysterious women of Japan are being killed one by one. The famous samurai Judge Ooka knows he will need help to solve the crimes, so he turns to his newly adopted son, fourteen-year-old Seikei. Determined to prove his worth as a samurai, Seikei goes undercover as a tea-house attendant to gather information in the exotic "floating city" of Yoshiwara, where demons lurk among the pleasure seekers... (more)