The Washington Post, October 20th, 2002
GEISHA, A LIFE By Mineko Iwasaki Atria. 297 pp. $25 MEMORIES OF WIND AND WAVES A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan By Junichi Saga Kodansha International. 258 pp. $24 Despite the words "a novel" on the jacket, when it came out five years ago Memoirs of a Geisha fooled plenty of Arthur Golden's readers into believing they were reading an actual memoir. One source of Golden's vivid insights into the closed world of Kyoto's Gion geisha district was Mineko Iwasaki, a retired geisha he befriended and whom he thanks lavishly by name in his acknowledgments for having "corrected my every misconception a...
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