Autobiography of a Geisha
Contributors: G. G. Rowley (Translator)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: May 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780231129503
Subjects: Biography: general; Women's studies; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Asia - General; Historical - General; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Masuda, Sayo; General; 1925-; Biography; Entertainers; Geishas; Japan; Masuda, Sayo,
First sentence: My earliest memories are of being a nursemaid in the home of landowners in the rural district of Gohara, near Shiojiri in Nagano Prefecture.
Description: The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life and hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geusha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of sex for sale, unadorned by trappings of wealth and celebrity.