Memoirs of a Geisha: A Portrait of the Film

Beneath the concrete layers and behind the flashing neon signs lies a memory of another Japan, one defined by scented fans, mannered dances and the haunting echo of a shamisen stringed instrument. Arthur Golden, author of the meaningful book, Memoirs of a Geisha, offers readers an entry to this old time. Golden's novel actually takes place in a country rapidly industrializing for the coming World War II. Like a geisha who has mastered the art of illusion, Golden creates a…...

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Geishas of the New World Introduction Many different cultures and countries have created niches in American society that sustain and envelop traditions from their native lands. Within these miniature sub-countries, some traditional practices defy the typical American beliefs. Of these, the Japanese cultural practice of the Geisha, has been brought to the societal forefront by the recently published novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. The artisan practice of being a Geisha is a long-lived tradition in Japan and some of its…...

"I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha... I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan." Beginning in a poor fishing village in 1929, Memoirs of a Geisha chronicles the life of nine-year-old Chiyo, born with blue-gray eyes, and sold with her sister into the slave life of being a geisha after her mother's death. Lost in this new world where a girls virginity is sold to the highest bidder, Chiyo…...

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A common way that many Western authors and artists depict the Eastern world is shown as unique, unknown, exciting, and “other” from what the West is used to. Not only does this show an incomplete and biased view of what the Eastern world looks like through the eyes of a westerner, but it emphasizes Asian tropes that are untrue, and these tropes become so engrained in what westerners imagine when they think of Asia. In Anne Allison’s chapter titled “American…...