Women of the Pleasure Quarters
Book description
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha. But as denizens of a world defined by silence and mystery,…
Why read it?
1 author picked Women of the Pleasure Quarters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
By reading this actual account by a woman who became a geisha herself, you will come to understand how far from reality the fictional book Memoirs of a Geisha, written by a man, really was. This is the best-ever portrait of this world and the women – far
from the pining, love-besotted servants – who inhabit it.
From Sheridan's list on Asian women.
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