Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki

Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown (Translator)

297 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir informative slow-paced
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"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I...

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Moods

informative 92%
reflective 59%
emotional 45%
inspiring 31%
funny 13%
challenging 10%
sad 8%
hopeful 7%
lighthearted 7%
adventurous 3%
relaxing 3%
dark 1%
mysterious 1%

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slow 29%
fast 16%

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