Geisha, a Life
Author: Mineko Iwasaki
“No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling…But I feel it is time to speak out.”Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years ol….Read More
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