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Review: GeishaUser Review - Kyle Wendy - GoodreadsExcellently written and researched book about the little known world of the geisha. Thorough and interesting...good companion to the "Memoirs of a Geisha" book. Read full review Review: GeishaUser Review - Self Obstructs - GoodreadsA surprisingly easy ready for someone's graduate work. Acting as a cultural anthropologist, Liza works through regional definitions of geisha, historical moments relevant to the profession of geisha, and some persuasive arguments for why geisha have not yet (as of 1976) died out in total. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesAkasaka asked Atami banquet bar hostess become a geisha called Chizuru color cultural customers Dai-Ichi dance dancers daughter dress drink Edo period entertainment flower and willow formal friends Futami geisha communities geisha house geisha world Gion girls guests hair hanamachi Ichi Ichigiku Ichiko Ichiteru Ichiume Japan Japanese Kabuki Kamo River kenban Kikugoro Kikuko kimono Korika kouta Kyoto geisha lady lanterns lessons live maiko marriage mistress Mitsuba mizu shobai mizu-age modern mother Motoko nagauta never okasan okiya older geisha older sister once Oyumi party patron performance play the shamisen Pontocho profession proprietress prostitutes rice Sakurako Satomi Setsubun shamisen Shimbashi silk sitting sleeves social society style teahouse things tion Tokyo traditional usually wear kimono wife willow world woman women Yamabuki Yanagibashi Yoshicho young geisha younger yujo yukata zashiki Bibliographic information
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