Geisha
In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century.
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In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520204959 (0520204956)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 367
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Culture,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Anthropology,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Facinating look at the world of the Geisha by a woman who started off studying them and then became the first and possibly only white geisha.
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