Geisha : A Life
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Book Summary Author: Mineko Iwasaki Edition: Hardcover Format: Bargain Price Published: 2002-10-01 ISBN: N/A Number of pages: 304 Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account |
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Book Reviews of the Geisha : A Life
Customer Review: Memoirs of a REAL Geisha
Summary: 5 Stars
This book makes a wonderful counterpoint to Memoirs of a Geisha. Although the author was the main source for that book here she tells her own story which, rather than being a girl from a poor area, sold to a geisha house and forced to prove she was worth the money spent, she is a girl that the house begged for, requesting for years that her family let her come and become the heir to the house and the adopted daughter of the owner. This is not the story of a geisha that was having businesmen bid for her virginity but one who's house was so wealthy that having sex play a part in the business made no sense. In a quote from the book she estimates that in the 1960's just from attending parties as a chaming guest she was bringing in over $500,000 per year to her house and states "Why would geisha resort to sex for money when you had that type of earing power?" You get the idea that in certain parts of the book she is correcting some of the artistic liscence taking in "Memoirs" but rather than being a distraction it just makes for more interesting reading. The childhood training, her drive to be perfect, her disputes with the traditions and the surprising descisions she makes at the end bring to life that small secluded part of the world that is fast dissappearing.