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Geisha A Life

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ISBN-10: 0743444299

ISBN-13: 9780743444293

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

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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 Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike. But even though she became one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, Iwasaki wanted more: her own life. And by the…    
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Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Mineko Iwasaki, now fifty-two years old, is the mother of two daughters. She lives with her husband in a suburb of Kyoto, Japan.

Rande Brown is an internationally acclaimed translator of books in Japanese culture and philosophy.