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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)