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Review: The Life of a Geisha by Eleanor Underwood

Jan 22, 2009 15:55

The Life of a Geisha

by Eleanor Underwood

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eleanor underwood, art, photography, non-fiction, japan, geisha, *1/2, 1999, r2009

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elfbiter January 23 2009, 14:12:34 UTC

If you don't have Liza Dalby's Geisha, I can recommend that. She worked for a geisha for a time to better understand that world.

fashion_piranha January 23 2009, 17:03:06 UTC

I have a copy of her book somewhere but I haven't actually cracked it open yet. It's on my to-do list for this year, tho'!

Too Bad... anonymous January 23 2009, 14:55:35 UTC

Bummer...I got pretty excited when I saw you'd discovered there was another Geisha book out! :( My first intro to Geisha was Golden's book...loved it. Then I read Geisha by Liz Dalby---although a bit dry here and there, it explained a lot. I got so excited to read Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki...but soon found out that she was so obsessed with herself that it turned me off and I never finished it.

Anyhow, if I ever come across your recent find, I'm sure I'll flip through it for the artwork...but I won't waste my time on the text. :)

~Elizardbreath

Re: Too Bad... fashion_piranha January 23 2009, 17:02:30 UTC

Have you read Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda? It was really great, the memoirs of a geisha who wasn't one of the popular "superstar" ones, and didn't live a fairytale life with a happily ever after ending. That one was worth the time of reading it!

Re: Too Bad... anonymous January 28 2009, 03:43:11 UTC

I haven't; I'll have to see if I can track it down...thanks! :)

~E