Geisha Kabocha-chan ("Pumpkin")
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Here's a link to an
audio interview with Arthur Golden the author of Memoirs of a Geisha
conducted by Linda Wertheimer of
National Public Radio
(NPR) in November of 1997
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According to Arthur Golden's
absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as
Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture
the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and
hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever
conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of
wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and history from
Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Tokyo who
was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geisha.
This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail of
geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent
years charming the very rich and famous.
The result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of
coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the
nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a
geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to
her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a
teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the
powerful patron of her dreams.
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