Geisha
In this classic best seller, Liza Dalby, the first 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. A new preface examines how geisha have been profoundly affected by the changes of the past quarter...
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In this classic best seller, Liza Dalby, the first 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. A new preface examines how geisha have been profoundly affected by the changes of the past quarter century yet--especially in Kyoto--have managed to take advantage of modern developments to maintain their social position with flair.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520257894 (0520257898)
Publish date: December 10th 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 374
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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