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Lesley Downer, an award- winning writer, Japanese scholar, and consummate storyteller, gained more access into this world than almost any other Westerner ever has and spent several months living among them. In Women of the Pleasure Quarters, she weaves together intimate portraits of modern geisha with the romantic legends and colorful historical tales of geisha of the past.

From Sadda Yakko, who dined with American presidents and had her portrait painted by Picasso, to Koito, a modern-day geisha who maintains her own website, geisha throughout history step out of the pages of Women of the Pleasure Quarters to become living, breathing creatures. Looking into such traditions as mizuage, the ritual deflowering which was once a rite of passage for all geisha, and providing colorful depictions of the geisha's dress, training, and homes, Downer, with grace, elegance, and respect, transforms their reality in a captivating narrative that both informs and entertains.

At once a symbol of a bygone age and an institution more quintessentially Japanese than any other, geisha are a society at a crossroads, struggling to reinvent their place in the new millennium while honoring the traditions of the past.

Both instructive and evocative, Women of the Pleasure Quarters is an enthralling portrait of a world unlike any other. Skip to content. Memoirs of a Geisha. Memoirs of a Geisha Book Review:. Autobiography of a Geisha. Autobiography of a Geisha Book Review:. Geisha Book Review:. Memoirs of a Geisha Sso. Memoirs of a Geisha Sso Book Review:. The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Study Guide. Study Guide Book Review:.

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