num_pages: 367
description: 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.
language: English
title: Geisha
titlecomplete: Geisha
genres: Asia, Historical, Biography, Cultural, Japanese Literature, Nonfiction, Japan, History, Memoir, Anthropology
ratings_count: 4593
places: Japan, Kyoto
publisher: University of California Press