Women of the Pleasure Quarters
Subtitle: The Secret History of the Geisha
Publisher: Broadway
Published: April 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780767904902
Subjects: History - General History; History; History: World; Asia - Japan; Customs & Traditions; Women's Studies - History; History / Japan
First sentence: More than a thousand years ago, long before geisha were even thought of, Kyoto was the center of an extraordinarily effete, decadent, and promiscuous culture which transformed love into an art form and beauty into a cult.