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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-16 - Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:
Trinie Dalton is back with a new compilation of short stories and, true to her outstanding form, her stories are vividly imagined. Yet they also represent a mor
Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Discusses the geisha--practioners of music and dance and unmarried companions to the Japanese male elite.
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
The author, an American anthropologist, describes her experiences during the year she spent as a Japanese geisha, and looks at the role of women, and geishas, i
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and
