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List Price: $22.95Amazon.com's Price: $15.61 You Save: $7.34 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.70280952
EAN: 9780520204959
ISBN: 0520204956
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 367
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 57176
Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century.
Amazon.com Review:
In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind "older sisters" bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. In Geisha, this observant ethnographer paints an intoxicating picture of the "flower and willow world" to which she gained entry. "Why are you studying geisha?" asks one slightly belligerent older sister. "Geisha are no different from anybody else." Not quite, says Dalby dryly, pointing out that geisha and wives play utterly divergent, though complementary, roles in traditional Japanese society. "Geisha are supposed to be sexy where wives are sober, artistic where wives are humdrum, and witty where wives are serious." While hardly feminists, they reap freedoms unknown to other women. Dalby illustrates broader cultural differences, too, with a million tiny details about boisterous customers, how many hundred-weight of tabi (split-toed socks) geishas go through, what defines iki (chic), why maiko (young apprentices) are drawn to the life, and what geisha wear, from the skin out. Acknowledging that her growing personal stake in the masquerade prevented objectivity, Dalby frees the reader to enjoy a fluid and fascinating look at one aspect of Japanese culture. --Francesca Coltrera
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Geisha is a lovely read. I finished it months ago but still think about it frequently. Dalby's love for Kyoto and her respect for the people she interviews and comes to know are evident throughout the book. Especially entertaining are the chapter on traveling to a hot-spring resort and the section detailing the separate evolution of the community of Tokyo geisha. I also like the structure of the book. In its first pages, events are described that tip the reader off to the fragility of the geishas' ... Read More
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This is a cultural look at the geisha world from the American viewpoint. I think she may not have been introduced into the real authentic world, but it was interesting reading. Since then, I've read other books by actual geishas to get a better look inside their world.
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This book not only holds your attention, but it opens the doors that have been closed so long to outsiders, even most japanese, for so long. I bought this about a year ago, and i didnt put it down for 3 days, which was the amount of time it took me to finish it. I read this after memoirs of a geisha and i really loved it. Liza Dalby got the experience of a lifetime, one that many of us wish we could have. All in all i have to say this is one of the best books about geisha...or any other book for that ... Read More
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Liz Dalby's book from the late seventies is a portrait in time of the flower and willow world of Geisha that no other Western author has ever been able to capture. This makes Arthur Golden's book Memoirs of a Geisha laughable compared to the poignancy of the stories of real Geisha and the lives they led at the time of writing.
Dalby also gives plenty of history (she is an anthropologist) as well as becoming her own test subject by actually portraying geisha herself. These personal accounts ... Read More
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This book by Liza Dalby is the most comprehensive book on geisha I have seen. Also, very readable.
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