Autobiography of a Geisha

Name: Autobiography of a Geisha
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ISBN: 9780231129510

ISBN-10: 0231129513

ISBN-13: 9780231129510

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Authors: Sayo Masuda, G. G. Rowley

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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 autobiography of a former hot-springs-resort geisha. Masuda was sent to work as a nursemaid at the age of six and then was sold to a geisha house at the age of twelve. In keeping with tradition, she first worked as a servant while training in the arts of dance, song, shamisen, and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.79" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Sayo Masuda died in 2008.G. G. Rowley teaches English and Japanese literature at Waseda University in Tokyo. She is the author of Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji.



Acknowledgments


Translator's Introduction



A Little Dog, Abandoned and Terrified


Little Crane the nursemaid


The eyes of the oxen glow in the dark


I, too, had a mother



The Sunburned Novice


The dream palace


Geisha school


I want to be a geisha, right now


My four "Elder Sisters"


The death of Elder Sister Takemi


The hot iron


The scar


I learn my name


Cruel rules


I devote myself to art



Miss Low Gets Wise


Shallow river


A secret place


The new novice


The sleep-with-anyone geisha


How to be cute and sexy



Bird in a Cage


My first customer


The geisha temperament


Miscarriage


Thou shalt not love


In the party business


Tip taker


Tsukiko's suicide


Revenge



Awakening to Love


Number Two and Number Three


Tricks of the love trade


The witcher bewitched


True love


Attempted suicide



Wanderings of a Castaway


No place to call home


A brother's love


Tears of humiliation


War's end


The dumpling-soup diner



A Dream for My Little Brother


Beautiful eyes


Peddler


Street stall


Gang moll


Little Foundling


Seven funerary laths



The Depths of Despair


My little brother's suicide


Return to Suwa


Reunion


Happy days


Farewell banquet


Love's anguish


Happiness and unhappiness


Wandering between life and death



The Road Back to Life


Innocent smile


Vain dreams


The Prostitution Prevention Act


Cats' paws


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography