num_pages: 334
description: 'I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.' Emerging shyly from her hiding place, Mineko encounters Madam Oima, the formidable proprietress of a prolific geisha house in Gion.
language: English
title: Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki
titlecomplete: Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki
genres: Japan, Biography, History, Autobiography, Japanese Literature, Historical, Asia, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 24097
places: Japan
publisher: Simon & Schuster