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Not Stranger Than Fiction.......2007-08-17
What bothers me reading some of these reviews is that they lack a clear understanding that "Memoirs Of A Geisha" is fiction, with poetic liberties taken and "Geisha Of Gion" is non-fiction. While I do believe that Mineko Iwasaki kept certain things private, she IS the Geisha whom Author Golden based his now famous novel on. The similarites between the women is as clear as the diffrences. If you want an illuminating look into the Gion district and life as a Geisha, you won't be disapointed. This book is an engaging read from front to back with a smooth even flow.
Wonderful Book.......2007-01-09
"Geisha of Gion" is a WONDERFUL book that is worth a read. Although it is non-fiction, I found it just as riveting as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and actually laughed a couple of times. If Liza Dalby had written her book in this fashion, perhaps it would have been a better read.
At any rate, I am thankful that Mineko chose to share her story (and pictures!) with the world. It paints geiko in a real, human light without the weight and darkness presented in "Memoirs". I learned a lot about geiko by reading "Memoirs", but "Gion" was able to correct my knowledge and add a little more.
If you're interested in geisha/geiko, then "Geisha of Gion" is a must-purchase book.
a sad star rises and softy lands.......2007-01-04
How sad a beginning and wonderful end. I enjoyed it much more than MEMOIRS. A little slow but lifes low spots always seem that way. I know that she showed up at the films wrap party in KYOTO and you could hear a pin drop. SHe was as beautiful that night as any.
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The truth behind geisha-hood........2006-09-19
I recently heard of Iwasaki's accusations against the author of "Memoirs of a Geisha". Since I've read "Memoirs" and seen the movie, I wanted another viewpoint, that of a geisha's, which is the reason I purchased this book. Iwasaki's book recounts her life before, during and after being a geisha. Now only does it contain information about what a geisha really does, she also includes amusing tidbits of her daily life. She also explained the general misconception that geishas sell the virginity. Overall, this book is englightening with regards to not only geishas but also the Japanese culture. The story is autobiographical and less dramatic than "Memoirs", which is fiction. Also, Iwasaki's writing style can be a tad monotonous at times. This is a great read for those who want a peek into the lives of geishas, but not suitable for those who want drama.
Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki.......2006-07-08
Book was received ontime and in good condition.
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Sayo Masuda's Autobiography of a Geisha offers a story of unremitting hardship faced by a hot-springs geisha, a virtual indentured sex-slave in pre-World War II Japan.
Born in 1925, Masuda began work as a nursemaid at age 5 and suffered a childhood of emotional and material poverty. She was then sold to the Takenoya geisha house in Upper Suwa at age 12. While her food and clothing were provided for by Takenoya, she was subject to constant verbal abuse as an apprentice. At one point, she was heaved down the stairs by her "Mother" (the name she uses for the proprietor of the geisha house) and nearly lost a leg. During her recovery, she attempted suicide and further injured herself.
Eventually, Masuda mastered the art of seduction as a geisha. The middle portion of the narrative is taken up with stories of her successful campaign for a danna (patron), of her brother's tragic suicide, and of her star-crossed love affair with a Japanese politician.
Autobiography of a Geisha, translated for the first time into English by G. G. Rowley, was published in Japan in 1957 and has been in print in Japan steadily ever since. The tale is rendered in a simple English prose to reflect Masuda's own, untrained style (she did not have schooling and she only learned to write hiragana script later in life). For Western readers, Masuda's autobiography is a gift: a glimpse into the dark reality behind one of the most shrouded institutions in Japanese culture. --Patrick O'Kelley
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The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geisha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of sex for sale, unadorned by the trappings of wealth and celebrity.
Sayo Masuda has written the first full-length autobiography of a former hot-springs-resort geisha. Masuda was sent to work as a nursemaid at the age of six and then was sold to a geisha house at the age of twelve. In keeping with tradition, she first worked as a servant while training in the arts of dance, song, shamisen, and drum. In 1940, aged sixteen, she made her debut as a geisha.
Autobiography of a Geisha chronicles the harsh life in the geisha house from which Masuda and her "sisters" worked. They were routinely expected to engage in sex for payment, and Masuda's memoir contains a grim account of a geisha's slow death from untreated venereal disease. Upon completion of their indenture, geisha could be left with no means of making a living. Marriage sometimes meant rescue, but the best that most geisha could hope for was to become a man's mistress.
Masuda also tells of her life after leaving the geisha house, painting a vivid panorama of the grinding poverty of the rural poor in wartime Japan. As she eked out an existence on the margins of Japanese society, earning money in odd jobs and hard labor -- even falling in with Korean gangsters -- Masuda experienced first hand the anguish and the fortitude of prostitutes, gangster mistresses, black-market traders, and abandoned mothers struggling to survive in postwar Japan.
Happiness was always short-lived for Masuda, but she remained compassionate and did what she could to help others; indeed, in sharing her story, she hoped that others might not suffer as she had. Although barely able to write, her years of training in the arts of entertaining made her an accomplished storyteller, and Autobiography of a Geisha is as remarkable for its wit and humor as for its unromanticized candor. It is the superbly told tale of a woman whom fortune never favored yet never defeated.
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What a suprise.......2007-05-04
I was expecting a difference from Memoirs, but WOW! What an intresting and sad life for these women. Makes me more than ever to be proud to be born an AMERICAN woman!
Life as I've never known it .......2007-04-23
The flavor of a Japan gaijin -- and many locals -- never see. I've always loved the romanticized versions of geisha life, but this portrays the everyday, humdrum details as well as the not-so-pleasant aspects. I pay lots of lip service to the luck I had being born in the latter half of the twentieth century, with enough money to allow me to get an education and chart my own life. Reading this makes me realize again that, for many people, my life is beyond luxurious.
Masuda's Memoirs.......2007-04-12
I ran across this while browsing in the library so I decided to check it out. Interesting story about Sayo Masuda and her life as a poor girl from Japan who winds up becoming a Geisha in the hot springs district. I didn't find the story particularly sad, in fact, I really didn't feel any kind of emotion while reading this story. Her experiences and recollections gave good insight into her life as a Geisha and her life after she left the profession. She struggled but eventually overcame. OK. The writing style really made this a reader-friendly story and the translation was quite good. I couldn't help but think of the movie Memoirs of a Geisha while reading this. Worth a read.
Loved it...but how sad!.......2006-08-15
This is an absolutely wonderful read. If you are looking for a book solely about the geisha life this is not the book to read rather this book focuses on the hardships faced by one little girl who was forgotten in this world. I highly recommend reading this book.
Geisha Good.......2006-03-04
I thought Masuda did a great job describing her life the many joys, losses, hardships, etc. I was a bit disappointed that her actual Geisha years weren't described. It's a good story if your into autobiography books and culture.
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Now in her 50s, Mineko Iwasaki was one of the most famed geishas of her generation (and the chief informant for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha). Her ascent was difficult, not merely because of the hard, endless training she had to undergo--learning how to speak a hyper-elevated dialect of Japanese and how to sing and dance gracefully while wearing a 44-pound kimono atop six-inch wooden sandals--but also because many of the elaborate, self-effacing rules of the art went against her grain. A geisha "is an exquisite willow tree who bends to the service of others," she writes. "I have always been stubborn and contrary. And very, very proud." And playful, too: one of the funniest moments in this bittersweet book describes a disastrous encounter with the queen of England and her all-too-interested husband.
Revealing the secrets of the geisha's "art of perfection," this graceful memoir documents a disappearing world. --Gregory McNamee
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No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now.
"Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave." Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike. But even though she became one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, Iwasaki wanted more: her own life. And by the time she retired at age twenty-nine, Iwasaki was finally on her way toward a new beginning.
Geisha, a Life is her story -- at times heartbreaking, always awe-inspiring, and totally true.
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"=GEISHA, A LIFE No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out. Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. She would enchant kings and princes, captains of industry, and titans of the entertainment world, some of whom would become her dearest friends. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form. In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of twenty-nine to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that ""existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past. She illustrates how it coexisted within post-World War II Japan at a time when the country was undergoing its radical transformation from a post-feudal society to a modern one.
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love it.......2007-09-26
I didn't know what to expect when reading this book. All I knew is I wanted to know more about what it is truly like to live the life as a Geisha. I felt the story line was a bit boring a times. I didn't think that much detail needed to be portrayed in the dress and hairstyles. I felt as though I was reading to take a test on the definition of a hairpiece or hairstyles etc. However I did like the feel of the book and it did give me good knowledge on what its like to be a geisha. I suppose I expected the details of the storyline to be more exciting. Instead the details of her clothes, dress, and tea ceremonies were the main them of the book. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested on the history of Geisha clothes, dance, and hair.
Does not ring true!.......2007-07-27
Mineko Iwasaki paints herself an old soul even as a mere toddler.
As a tot she was witty and wise and insightful and sensitive... almost ethereal... need I go on? (She does!)
But Mineko also felt the need to constantly retreat to the closet.
Something just doesn't ring true.
I found her story very hard to believe. She remembers more about her life at age three than I remember about last week.
As she ages she comes across as narcissistic and shallow.
This reminds me of those Tiger-Beat type biographies written in the 70's and 80's about famous teen idols.
The book just doesn't ring true.
Geishas: The lowdown.......2007-06-30
It's unfair to compare this book to "Memoirs of a Geisha." Yes, Mineko Iwasaki was interviewed by Arthur Golden when he was working on his best-selling book, but "Memoirs of a Geisha" is a work of fiction. It's a fantastic book in its own right, but many of its depictions of life as a geisha are said to be very inaccurate. That's one of the reasons Iwasaki decided to write "Geisha: A Life." She wanted to set the record straight.
"Geisha: A Life" is the true story of Iwasaki's illustrious career as Japan's number one geiko. At the age of five, Iwasaki began training at an okiya in the Gion district of Kyoto. She was later adopted by the okiya's owner and named as its eventual successor. Iwasaki worked tirelessly to perfect her craft and went through a lot of difficult times. She eventually grew frustrated by the limitations of her career and retired at the age of 29 so that she could raise a family and follow her own dreams.
This book is full of many details regarding the everyday life of geishas. I can see why some fans of "Memoirs of a Geisha" are disappointed because this book is a lot more straightforward and technical than Gordon's novel. However, Iwasaki's story does not lack emotion or passion. Iwasaki is open and honest about many unpleasant experiences in her life: being separated from her parents, surviving an attempted rape by her nephew, etc. I guess those things don't even begin to compare to what the character of Sayuri endures in "Memoirs of a Geisha," but once again, Sayuri is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER! I don't understand how people can compare her and Iwasaki. Sayuri isn't real! End of story.
I've always been fascinated by the geisha tradition, and I loved this book because it sheds so much more insight into this mysterious and often misrepresented way of life. Iwasaki's story is amazing, and I'm glad she chose to share it with the world.
Eh..........2007-06-18
I liked this book. It was a great look into the geisha world through the eyes of one of its most succesfull woman. Mineko Iwasaki, arthur goldens informant into the life of a geisha, which he used to make his book memoirs of a geisha, scorned not only her career but the entire geisha world. I believe this book is an attempt to bring back some dignity to the profession, as well as the auther heself, but I think that comes off a bit too cleary in her book. I do think golden was wrong, but i think Mineko needs to just let this pain fade and move on. If she didnt want anyone to know what she did she should have..for one..never trusted an american man who wants to sell books because of course if everyone knew he got his information from a real succesful geisha living the life that he has depicted in his novel, it will boost sales. And she should have just never opened her mouth, and let him learn the hard way...by reading other books.
One of the most successful Geisha of Kyoto.......2007-05-14
I first read Memoirs of a Geisha in high school and fell deeply in love with the aesthethic and mysteries of Japanese culture. When I heard it was based from Mineko Iwasaki's life story (she states this herself), I very much wanted to read her version of the story. I finished the book in about 2 days and found it cut short. Iwasaki-san is very good at giving us detail and providing reason for customs but her storytelling falls short. I tried to parallel the two stories (Memoirs & Geisha) and found them to be significantly different. Yes, they both portray a successful dancing Geisha, but events and ending are not the same. I sometimes think Iwasaki-san is holding back or censoring certain information and events for the sake of maintaining her relations with the people connected to the Geisha practice. (Since she was already shunned for revealing too much for Arthur Golden's book.) It's a good quick read if you're looking for something light and short.
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American Geisha (Kegan Paul Japan Library)
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'Come and be my geisha'. Responding to her solider husband's invitation, an American woman arrives in 1950's Japan and encounters something very different to the world of Madame Butterfly and Lafcadio Hearn she is expecting. Entertaining and insightful, this memoir captures the challenge and mutual incomprehension she experiences as she strives to learn about another culture and people, while they struggle to understand her. Written with tremendous zest and good humour, American Geisha is a timeless example of how to live abroad successfully in an increasingly global world, as well as a fascinating account of everyday life in Japan in the immediate post-war years.
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A Fascinating Read.......2001-06-14
I found this book to be a wonderfully written and fascinating collection of short stories about the author's encounter with people that he met whilst he was living in Japan.
His stories have been written in a "matter of fact" way - and at first they seem impersonal but as you read further into the stories they become very personal and you get drawn into the lives of these people.
I came away from reading this book feeling as though I had a more personal and in-depth glance into the lives and minds of the Japanese more so than what any other book has given me.
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Kiharu-Vida De Una Geisha
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The critically acclaimed author of On the Narrow and Women of the Pleasure Quarters tells the enthralling true story of the woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the United States and Europe.
At twenty-seven, she captivated the world's stage. The crowned heads of Europe vied for her favors. Picasso sketched her portrait. Puccini based the title character of Madame Butterfly on her and used one of her haunting melodies. Gide, Debussy, Degas, and Rodin were among her devoted fans. She was Sadayakko, Japan's most notorious geisha-and its first international superstar.
In this real-life Memoirs of a Geisha, Lesley Downer, journalist and author of Women of the Pleasure Quarters, hailed as "artfully intelligent... compelling...comprehensive and illuminating" (The Associated Press), re-creates the life and times of this extraordinary woman and cultural icon. Sadayakko's adventures and travels lift the veil on the secretive world of the geisha and are told against the backdrop of the beguiling era when Japan and the West were meeting for the first time.
Drawing from meetings with Sadayakko's family members, including her granddaughter, who granted rare access, and others who knew her intimately, this noted geisha expert chronicles the pivotal moments of Sadayakko's dramatic life. As an exquisite young geisha, her virginity was sold for an exorbitant amount to Japan's most powerful man, the prime minister. She shocked the Tokyo geisha world when she left her lucrative career to become the wife of the rebellious-and penniless-actor and political maverick Otojiro Kawakami. He took her to the United States, where posters and crowds hailed her arrival, and to Europe, where she became the toast of Paris, a muse to writers and artists, and an influence on women's fashion.
Madame Sadayakko tells the story of an unlikely rebel who carved out her own path, and reveals a missing piece of history from the turn of the last century, when Japanese women were wearing bustles and learning the waltz and European women were wearing Sadayakko kimonos.
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Just a minor quibble.......2007-10-15
As others have noted, the author includes a fair amount of conjecture in this charming and passionate account. Most of it is credible, but Sadayakko could not possibly have "sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge" in 1899, as Downer writes on page 91. Oops!
EXCELLENT LIFE STORY OF A GEISHA.......2007-05-28
I read this book today, and I couldn't put it down. It is beautifully written and had some happy and sad parts. It is a really great story about the life of Japan's first star who traveled to America and Europe telling of her experiences. It also tells of her lovers, historical events, scenery,family, and geisha life. While I was reading this, I felt like I was in olden day Japan. Very descriptive and a wonderful read. I highly recommend this book.
below expectations.......2007-03-28
I got interested in geisha culture after watching Memoirs of Geisha and then reading the same named book, and then buying more and more books about geisha. Out of everything I've read so far,I found " Madame Sadayakko.." to be the least interesting one. It's very biographical. The language and the contents of the story is very dull. Besides the author going back and forth refering to the events,which have happenned in the past and will happen in the future. I understand that the mission of the book was to provide historical accounts of Madame Sadayako's life and geisha traditions. But taking in the account the name of the book, it fell below my expectations. I still don't see how this Geisha bewitched the West.
A great historical tie-in.......2007-02-22
I love books on the Victorian period and found this tied in on two levels. The view of Japan and its culture at the time was enlightening, and the parallels with Europe and the U.S. informative.
Saddayakko's struggles were almost epic, and her strength of will amazing. The reader is pulled into her struggles just to survive, maintain some dignity, and fight convention in Japan and the world.
It is also an interesting history of the world of theater and the hypocrisy of society as it worships and vilifies at the same time.
Not the typical bit of history you would expect to learn........2006-08-18
Madame Sadayakko was an enjoyable book and a quick read. Perhaps it was quick because I couldn't wait to get to the next point in the adventure of her life. Many of the biographies I read from this period criss cross into each other. This was the exception. This was a colorful and exciting piece of history I never gave a thought to explore. I'm glad I did
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- Evolving experience
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Memorias de Una Geisha
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En Memorias de una geisha, Arthur Golden abre una ventana al misterioso mundo del erotismo en Japón y describe con fidelidad la delicada fortaleza de la cultura de las geishas de Kioto a lo largo del siglo.
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Evolving experience.......2007-01-18
Desde un principio, y al estrenarse la película acá en Lima, solamante el título me creó la curiosidad de leer antes el libro...Luego de bastante tiempo, pude hacerlo, y debo decir que la experiencia fue simplemente increible.
La manera en que el autor pone en detalle la narración de la historia, los nombres, los datos históricos, la descripción de los sucesos, lugares, personas, nombres y apellidos....me hicieron creer que en realidad, era una biografía de una geisha, y que todos los personajes eran reales. En una oportunidad, traté de buscar el famoso pintor que retrató a Sayuri....y me dí con la mala noticia de que todo era ficticio. Sin embargo, este libro a despertado en mi una curiosidad y fascinación por la cultura japonesa, y cada día me encuentro a mi misma investigando más sobre las geishas, Gion, y Kioto en el internet.
Recomiendo este libro a todas las personas, a quienes les gusta los libros tipo documentales, a los eternos románticos, a los que les gusta la cultura japonesa, a los fans de las geishas....en realidad se que a todos los va a cautivar.
Un viaje a un mundo magico!!.......2006-01-20
Fantastico libro... una traduccion excelente! Hace tiempisimo que un libro no me permitia dejarlo hasta acabarlo. Cautivadora narracion que facilita no solo el sumergirse dentro del mundo tan privado de las geishas, sino indudablemente en el de la cultura japonesa. Se lo recomiendo con los ojos cerrados...disfrutelo!
No puedes dejar de leerlo!.......2004-08-18
Aprendi bastante acerca de la vida de las Geishas, de sus costumbres, rituales etc... super divertido. Te lleva a un mundo diferente, te hace vivir la historia muy de cerca.
UN BUEN LIBRO.......2002-10-24
MEMORIAS DE UNA GEISHA ES UN LIBRO EXCELENTE! LA NARRATIVA TE TRANSPORTA AL JAPON DE ESA EPOCA. ESTE ESCRITO TE HACE CONOCER LA VIDA DE MUCHAS MUJERES QUE SU UNICA OPCION FUE EL SER GEISHAS. NOS DEJA CONOCER A TRAVES DE ELLAS, UNA PARTE IMPORTANTE Y TAL VEZ TRISTE DE SUS VIDAS. ME ENCANTO Y ME HUBIERA GUSTADO CONOCER LA PROTAGONISTA Y SU VISION EN ESTOS TIEMPOS DE LA MUJER EN JAPON. LE RECOMIENDO ESTO LIBRO A AQUELLAS PERSONAS QUE GUSTAN DE LA HISTORIA.
A Wonderful Novel.......2002-10-04
This novel is not just the story of Sayuri, a 9 years old peasant girl sold into slavery to a Kyoto okiya as a servant girl, but a complete story of the geisha culture at Gion, a Kyoto neighborhood, before WWII. This novel give us a lot of details about the geishas make up, dressing code, education, rituals and rules, behavior, rivalries and envies between them, their expectations and dreams, etc. An excellent narrative which discover the unknown world of the geishas in the first half of the xx century Imperial Japan.
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- Getting Even
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- Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph (The Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
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