The history and the information about Japan and the geisha culture was fascinating. I went to sleep at night with Japanese words running through my dreams. It was revealing to see inside that kind of ...

Bernadette Murphy is a regular book reviewer for the Calendar section. Arthur Golden’s 1997 “Memoirs of a Geisha” introduced readers to the glamorous life of Sayuri, a Kyoto geisha, in a realm in ...

In 1992, Mineko Iwasaki was a retired geisha living quietly with her husband and daughter in the hills of Kyoto when a young American author named Arthur Golden called upon her with an unusual request ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - - Ikuko, the "big sister" of Tokyo's Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel coronavirus ...

Long before Arthur Golden’s “Memoirs of a Geisha” became a bestselling novel and a Hollywood movie, the Japanese geisha was an intriguing and enigmatic subject. Now along comes “Hannari: Geisha Modern ...

Children are told fables in authoritative voices, making it plausible that a grasshopper could dance and nosh during placid summer days while neurotic ants scurry about like shoppers at a Woolworth’s ...

The powerful image of the geisha - scarlet lips across an alabaster-white painted face, a glossy black wig and ornate kimono - has been associated with Japanese culture since the 17th century. Yet, ...

TOKYO – Ikuko, the “big sister” of Tokyo’s Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel coronavirus pandemic has ...

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