Geisha: 25th Anniversary Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition, Updated with a New Preface - Softcover

Dalby, Liza Crihfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520257898 ISBN 13: 9780520257894

Publisher: University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this classic best seller, Liza Dalby, the first 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. A new preface examines how geisha have been profoundly affected by the changes of the past quarter century yet--especially in Kyoto--have managed to take advantage of modern developments to maintain their social position with flair.

About this title

Review:

"Provides an important window on the arts practiced by geisha, a history of their profession, and their reception in modern Japan through the mid-1970s."--"Southeast Review of Asian Stds"

About the Author:

Liza Dalby is the author of East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons (UC Press), The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel, and Kimono: Fashioning Culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520257898
• ISBN 13: 9780520257894
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 374