Autobiography of a geisha
By: Sayo Masuda ; translated from the Japanese by G.G. Rowley
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780099490777
Subjects: Geishas; Biography
Work titles: Geisha, kutō no hanshōgai
Description: The glamorous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers. This text presents a different view. Sayo Masuda was a geisha at a hot-springs resort, where the realities of sex for sale were unadorned by the trappings of wealth and power.
Notes: Translated from the 1995 Japanese rev. ed. -- Reprinted with a new epilogue dated 2005. -- Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2003 ; London : Vintage, 2004.

Translated from the Japanese.