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Author : Arthur Golden
Publisher : Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781405882675
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.
Author : Mineko Iwasaki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743444293
A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.
Author : Liza Crihfield Dalby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520047426
The author, an American anthropologist, describes her experiences during the year she spent as a Japanese geisha, and looks at the role of women, and geishas, in modern Japan
Author : Lesley Downer
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Geishas
ISBN : 9780747264262
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 musical instrument but, above all, they are masters of the art of conversation, soothing worries of highly paid businessmen who can afford their attentions. The real secret history of the geisha is explored here.
Author : Stanley B. Burns
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Geishas
ISBN :
Japanese Geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-19th century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travellers. Geisha: A Photographic History 1872-1912 documents the intimate life and culture of this 19th century icon. It portrays the artists of these images in a cultural reality created by staged studio photography, private scenes and rare outdoor images. Essential viewing.
Author : Arthur Golden
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1999-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375406786
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.
Author : Sayo Masuda
Publisher : Random House
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Geishas
ISBN : 0099462044
The glamorous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers but Sayo Masuda's tale tells a different story, one that bears little resemblance to the elegant geisha quarters frequented by illustrious patrons. Masuda was a geisha at a rural hot-spring
Author : Mineko Iwasaki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1471105733
'A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail '[An] eloquent and innovative memoir' The Times The extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japan's foremost geisha. 'I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.' Emerging shyly from her hiding place, Mineko encounters Madam Oima, the formidable proprietress of a prolific geisha house in Gion. Madam Oima is mesmerised by the child's black hair and black eyes: she has found her successor. And so Mineko is gently, but firmly, prised away from her parents to embark on an extraordinary profession, of which she will become the best. But even if you are exquisitely beautiful and the darling of the okiya, the life of a geisha is one of gruelling demands. And Mineko must first contend with her bitterly jealous sister who is determined to sabotage her success . . . Captivating and poignant, Geisha of Gion tells of Mineko's ascendancy to fame and her ultimate decision to leave the profession she found so constricting. After centuries of mystery Mineko is the only geisha to speak out. This is the true story she has long wanted to tell and the one that the West has long wanted to hear.
Author : Liza Dalby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520257894
Discusses the geisha--practioners of music and dance and unmarried companions to the Japanese male elite.
Author : John Foster
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780764332210
This exquisite collection of photographs and interviews focuses on four of Kyoto's most beautiful geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha). First, the geisha and maiko were photographed at Kyoto's largest geisha dance performances and other important dances. Next, portrait sessions were held with each woman to capture the kata (forms or poses) of her favorite dances. The geisha and maiko were then interviewed about their photographs, giving the reader a rare insight into their artistic training. Finally, images follow one maiko from her last few days as an apprentice through her first few days as a geisha. Never before has the change from maiko to geisha been documented so completely. The result is a collection of 149 gorgeous photographs that shed light on these exquisitely beautiful women like no other book before.