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Geisha: A Life |  | Author: Mineko Iwasaki
Creator: Rande Brown
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  110 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0743444299
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780743444293
ASIN: 0743444299
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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Now in her 50s, Mineko Iwasaki was one of the most famed geishas of her generation (and the chief informant for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha). Her ascent was difficult, not merely because of the hard, endless training she had to undergo--learning how to speak a hyper-elevated dialect of Japanese and how to sing and dance gracefully while wearing a 44-pound kimono atop six-inch wooden sandals--but also because many of the elaborate, self-effacing rules of the art went against her grain. A geisha "is an exquisite willow tree who bends to the service of others," she writes. "I have always been stubborn and contrary. And very, very proud." And playful, too: one of the funniest moments in this bittersweet book describes a disastrous encounter with the queen of England and her all-too-interested husband. Revealing the secrets of the geisha's "art of perfection," this graceful memoir documents a disappearing world. --Gregory McNamee
Product Description
No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now. "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave." Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike. But even though she became one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, Iwasaki wanted more: her own life. And by the time she retired at age twenty-nine, Iwasaki was finally on her way toward a new beginning. Geisha, a Life is her story -- at times heartbreaking, always awe-inspiring, and totally true.
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 Over-Rated July 15, 2010
S. J. Bice (florida)
Although an interesting read, the autobiography lacks any real flow. The author jumps so often from one time period or story to another that you always wonder where you are in the time line.
Also the author seems in such a rush to put down any suggestion of sexual undertones in the society, that it becomes over done. On the other hand she admits to an affair with a married man as normal.
All through the author uses a snobbish tone and that is rather off putting. Also I think that claiming to remember in perfact clairity events from the age of two and three a bit crazy.
I would not recommend this book.
I truly hope it's just a language barrier June 7, 2010
ScribeBuddy (Los Angeles, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hope and pray that it's a simple misinterpretation from Japanese to English (or a number of them...per page) that make this woman appear so amazingly awful. I mean just...awful. Warning: you won't like this woman very much. Additional warning: as opposed to, say, Darth Vader or Satan, there isn't even anything interesting in her awfulness to hold you to the page. This book took me three hours to read and that's only because I couldn't stop putting it down. Its simplicity should have called for 90 casual-speed minutes at best.
Somewhere in the middle of all the name-dropping and self-petting, you come to realize that there's no way that in a profession where personality really is everything, this woman could have been number one considering the things she said and did to, for example, English royalty (oh, please)...which means, ironically, that she's lying about herself and not in a good way. Getting the Queen of England jealous? Oh good heavenly days, deliver us.
I wish she had at least been deliciously, rather than pathetically, nasty so that the book could have been an interesting read.
Two stars for the humor of hearing what passes for everyday English (calling older people "Gramps," for example) since at least *that* was entertaining. I'm very disappointed, though -- I expected at least something juicy, but amid all the self-genuflecting about how people gave her $3,000 tips and never expected to even cop a feel without being chased around with a kitchen knife, there was just really nothing interesting...except, notably, a story or two about the history of others as told to her. Now those were worth reading.
Thank God I picked this up from the library rather than paying for it.
 Enchanting Memior April 15, 2010
Elijah F. Kelly III (Salisbury MD)
I found much joy in reading this book, if you love history and art, this is a easy read and very educational, a wonderful story lined biography. What a life to have had.
Lived up to Standard! March 5, 2010
Peekay (California)
Needed the book for my world lit class...speedy service, cheap price, and book was in Excellent condition! would NEVER think twice about doing business with them again!!!
Engaging and fascinating March 4, 2010
VioletCrush
I loved Memoirs of a Geisha, both the movie and the book. So when I found out that the Geisha on whom the book was based on or rather inspired from has written an autobiography, I was thrilled. Apparently, Ms Mineko Iwasaki was very upset over the way Geisha's were portrayed by Arthur Golden and that he breached an understanding that her name was not to be mentioned anywhere, but he did, in the book as well as in interviews. She also got death threats from people who thought she had defaced Japanese culture. So she decided to write a book of her own.
Iwasaki's parents were distraught when she decided to become a Geisha when she was just 5 years old. How a girl so young could make such a decision and how could the parents agree to it is something beyond me, even though she has tried to explain it. She goes to stay in an Okiya (a geisha house) and she is initiated into the trainings and numerous classes when she turns six.
A woman who is training to become a Geisha has a very disciplined life. There is traditional dancing, singing, playing instruments and also studying. Would-be Geisha's are allowed to study until Junior High, in fact it's kind of a rule.
Iwasaki excels in dancing and she is introduced as a maiko when she is 15 years old. After a few years of working as a maiko she becomes a geiko at age 21, which are the same names for a Geisha, just different hierarchies. She soon becomes one of the top geisha's in Gion. In fact, today she almost has a legendary status.
What surprised me most was how systematic and well organized the world of a Geisha is. There is a list of all the girls that are going to come out as maiko's. There is a Kimono Dealers association. There is a very strict hierarchy which if broken can result in serious consequences. The earnings of all the geisha's are reported to the Geisha Committee (I think that's whats it is), so everyone knows who the highest earning geisha for a particular year is.
The Geisha world itself is so complicated or may be I felt that way because I had not heard a lot about it. There is a rule of what kind of and what design a Kimono can have depending on seasons. Same goes for hairstyles and ornaments. It was exhausting just reading about it.
It is very clear that Ms Iwasaki loved and respected what she did and she has tried to dispel all the myth's regarding geisha's. She often sounds a bit egoistic and someone that could do no wrong. But we also need to understand the world she lived in, a world when no one, including one's sister cannot be trusted. She lived by the motto: The Samurai betrays no weakness, even when starving. Pride above all. I can understand how easily pride can be mistaken for ego in the geisha world.
There are lots of minute details on a lot of things like the music school, the dance school, the different kinds of geisha's, the customs and traditions. There are also descriptions on Kimono designs, hair ornaments and the kind. For e.g take this:
My Kimono was made out of figured satin in variegated turquoise. The heavy hem of the train was dyed in shades of burnt orange, against which floated a drift of pine needles, maple leaves, cherry blossoms and chrysanthemum petals. My obi was made of black damask decorated with swallowtail butterflies. I wore a matching obi clasp of a swallowtail butterfly fashioned out of silver.
There are many passages like these which some people may find dry and boring. But I loved them, it helped me immerse myself in the book more. In fact 2 days after finishing this book I struggled with picking up another that was as engrossing as this one.
If I have to compare this book with Memoirs of a Geisha, I would say both are very different from each other. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we get a young, naive and endearing Sayuri, where as here we get a strong willed, dedicated Mineko. Arthur Golden seems to have picked the main storyline from one of the minor characters and mixed it with Iwasaki's story to make it more dramatic. If you are looking for a "Memoirs of a Geisha" kind of book, you will be disappointed. But both are brilliant in their own way, one as page turning fiction and one as a real look into the Japanese culture. The simple fact that Geisha, A Life is a true story gives it a different feel altogether.
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