1929 after Chiyo's mother die; her father sells her to the Geisha house in Kyoto. Chiyo works as a maid and learns to be a geisha at the same time. Because of her beauty and unusual gray color eyes, the famous geisha Hatusmomo is jealous, and makes her life utterly miserable. During the training period, Chiyo tries to escape but she is catch by the owner of the house (Chiyo calls her mother), so mother stops her training, and Chiyo has to be a maid for her whole life.
One day, Chiyo meets the chairman, a wealth man in the city. She is moved by the chairman's kindness. Chiyo determined to be a geisha after that, because this is the only way to meet the chairman again. Chiyo meets another person sequential, Mameha who changes Chiyo's life totally. Mameha adopts Chiyo as her sister, and teaches Chiyo how to be tops geisha, also let Chiyo evade from Hatusmomo's tyrannize. Two years later, Chiyo becomes a probationer, and her name becomes Sayuri. .
Mameha helps Sayuri to make two important decisions, which pushes Sayuri to be a successful tops geisha. She sells Sayuri's virgin for a high price, the big bucks of money avails Sayuri to pay off her debt, and also forces mother to adopts Sayuri. After that Sayuri becomes the daughter of the geisha house, a place that Hatsumomo cannot hector anymore. Another decision is, Mameha finds a general as a sponsor to Sayuri in a militarism time. During the war, the general protects and supplies goods to Sayuri and her geisha house, lets her lives safety. .
However, after the war end, the general loses the power and money, he cant be the sponsor anymore. And the chairman because of his best friend is wooing Sayuri, so he gives up her. In another side, Sayuri is still missing the chairman; she cant forget his kindness and encouragement. When Sayuri becomes nearly forty, she finally decides to tell the chairman how she feel, and renounces from the chairman's friend.
INTRODUCTION What is a geisha? ... WHAT ARE GEISHA? ... HOW DOES ONE BECOME A GEISHA? ... An o-chaya is the place in which many geishas and geishas in training live. ... Wives generally know who their husbands" geisha are and look to the geishas for support in times of need and celebration, acknowledging the geishas with open arms WILL THE ART OF GEISHA SURVIVE? ...
The setting of the novel was in a popular geisha district of Gion in Kyoto, and we are given in great detail throughout the story of what a geisha's life was like. ... She wasn't born to be a Kyoto geisha. ... Sayuri continued working hard to become a geisha. ... Mameha had once said, "We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice" (294). ... Before coming across this book, I had no idea what a geisha was. ...
Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden Vintage Books, New York 434 pages Memoirs of a Geisha is a captivating look into the world of geisha that was so popular among Japanese so many years ago. ... Memoirs of a Geisha is Golden's first novel. ... At the okiya, she meets Hatsumomo, who is a very popular geisha in the Gion district, and the only geisha living at the Nitta Okiya. ... Memoirs of a Geisha a excellent novel, but more excellent is the way Arthur Golden is able to portray the emotions of Sayuri as she struggles to become the successful geisha she is destined to be. ......
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA-REVIEW The words outstanding, amazing, divine and delirious would not even begin to describe the great reading experience of Arthur Golden's masterpiece: "Memoirs of a Geisha." ... After surmounting many difficulties, she dreams of becoming a geisha. She soon learns from her teacher, who is one the most successful geishas herself, how to act in the presence of men and how to become a flourishing geisha. ... In conclusion, "Memoirs of a Geisha" projects great impact on the reader. ... Although Sayuri and her story are invented, the historical facts of a geisha'...
Sayuri was one of Kyoto, Japan's most renowned geisha. ... A geisha could be considered a high-class prostitute in some cases. ... The second, is her family at the okiya (household where geisha are trained), more than two decades later. ... Nevertheless, Memoirs of a Geisha has a very real, very majestic and exceptionally captivating poetic feel. ... The author of Memoirs of a Geisha, Jakob Haarhuis, said this of Sayuri's terminology: "Sayuri did hide the identities of certain men even from me rather common among geisha, of referring to customers by means of an epithet" (G...
I'm sure most geisha would call it a bad omen that I?... Pg. 420 Preceding, is THE crucial clause of Arthur Golden's entire novel Memoirs of a Geisha as included in the single passage are Chiyo's turning points in life which are important stages of her development as a character for the audience. ... One is compelled to observe that Chiyo's childhood and development as a Geisha consisted of the principles of Yin; earth = creation, dark = dismal, passive = patient/ influenced, absorbing = fascinating, and female is obvious. ...
Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden Many people come about numerous crossroads in their life and deciding whether to follow sentiment or reason creates many battles between their best interests. ... Since she had broken her arm, she had been taken back into the Gion and made a servant to pay off her medical bills and therefore was taken in by Mameha, who was a well respected geisha, to become her apprentice. ... If she had been successful she would have never gained the knowledge and the training to become a successful geisha. ... It was he who had arranged Mameha to take in Sayuri as...
Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden Many people come about numerous crossroads in their life and deciding whether to follow sentiment or reason creates many battles between their best interests. ... Since she had broken her arm, she had been taken back into the Gion and made a servant to pay off her medical bills and therefore was taken in by Mameha, who was a well respected geisha, to become her apprentice. ... If she had been successful she would have never gained the knowledge and the training to become a successful geisha. ... It was he who had arranged Mameha to take in Sayuri as...
Geishas are also and interesting sight to see. Geishas are Japanese women dressed in kimonos with faces painted white and blood-red lip stick who are basically entertainers for Japanese men. ... Geishas usually wear hand made wigs that usually range from $2,000 to $5,000 each! ...
