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Autobiography of a Geisha Sayo Masuda
Publisher: Columbia University Press

The novel's protagonist is Sayuri, a geisha who is sold and forced to part with her family to an okiya in Gion, a geisha district in Kyoto, Japan. Genre: Autobiography Book set in: Kyoto, Japan Source: Library Paperback: 320 pages. As the title states, this is a true story of a Japanese geisha in the 1940s and 1950s. Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki. One of my favourite Japanese books (Autobiography of a Geisha) was written entirely in hiragana because the author wasn't literate and couldn't use kanji. Beware though: it's not the beautiful sweetness that you read or saw in Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. This account shocked Japanese readers with its bitter taste of grinding poverty and its revelations about the geisha world's dark side. It's the story which inspired Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha previously, but due to inaccuracies, was released later as an autobiography. I loved Memoirs of a Geisha, both the movie and the book. Publisher: Washington Square Press (October 1, 2003) Rating: 5 out of 5. In contrast to these "one-night geisha", the true onsen geisha are in fact competent dancers and musicians. A comfortless portrait of the flip side of the geisha world, where one is more slave than courtesan. A long standing stigma has been placed on Japanese Geisha girls. She argues in her autobiography, Geisha of Gion (2002), that the sexual nature of the Mizuage is fictionalised and that no such practice ever took place. It contains many Japanese terms for aspects of the geisha culture, occasionally using the Kyoto counterparts. When someone thinks of a Geisha, they think of a glorified prostitute or call girl.