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100 quotes from Mineko Iwasaki: 'Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.', 'Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.', and 'And we are not mountaintop.
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Geisha: A Life. Paperback - Illustrated, 1 Sept. 2003. 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.
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Mineko Iwasaki (born Masako Tanaka) is a Japanese businesswoman, Geiko and author. Iwasaki was the most famous Japanese Geiko in Japan until her sudden publicized retirement at the age of 29.
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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.
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Mineko Iwasaki, born on November 2, 1949, in Kyoto, Japan, is a retired geisha and renowned author, best known for her memoir "Geisha, a Life." As one of the most successful and celebrated geishas of her time, Iwasaki revolutionized the traditional image of a geisha, challenging stereotypes and shedding light on the intricacies of this.
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4.4 1,474 ratings See all formats and editions 'I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.' Emerging from her hiding place, Mineko encounters Madam Oima, the formidable proprietress of a prolific geisha house in Gion.
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Mineko Iwasaki was a real geisha (she and the people she worked with preferred the term 'geiko,' which means 'woman of art' as opposed to the more generic 'geisha' which means 'artist'). This book is her autobiography. She worked in the Gion Kobu district of Kyoto, the most famous and high-class district of Kyoto in the 1960s.
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However, a real geisha, named Mineko Iwasaki, sued the author of the book because of defamation. Surprisingly, not the plot, but some characters in the book resembled some of the real characters in Mineko Iwasaki's life that she shared with the author in a private conversation.
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Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards.
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Mineko also covers the importance of appearance, describing the elements of beauty, including the kimono. These garments were a special -- and costly -- part of a geisha's appearance, and could only be worn a few times. In Geisha, Mineko Iwasaki leads us through a fascinating profession. While a glossary of Japanese terms would have been.
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Geisha, A Life. Paperback - September 1, 2003. by Mineko Iwasaki (Author), Rande Brown. 4.5 1,266 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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Geisha, a life by Iwasaki, Mineko, 1949-; Ouchi, Rande Brown Publication date 2003 Topics General, Biography/Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Women, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, Ethnic Cultures - General, Biography & Autobiography / General, Iwasaki, Mineko, 1949-, Geishas Publisher
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In this autobiography, Mineko Iwasaki lifts the veil on geisha life to reveal a true story of abandonment, rape and overwhelming dedication to art. Mineko tells a tale of reconciling public and private identities, granting an insight into the mind and heart of the geisha performer. Originally published: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
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In "Geisha, a Life," Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned.
