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Language: en
Pages: 408
Pages: 408
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-08 - Publisher: Crown
From critically acclaimed author and Japanese scholar Lesley Downer, an enchanting portrait of the mysterious world of the geisha. Ever since Westerners arrived
Language: en
Pages: 198
Pages: 198
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the women of the pleasure quarters and entertainment districts of Japan of the seventeenth through nineteenth ce
Language: en
Pages: 434
Pages: 434
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Language: en
Pages: 356
Pages: 356
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Penguin
The author of Women of the Pleasure Quarters shares the story of the famous geisha whose life inspired Puccini's Madame Butterfly, from her training and partici