Sold to an okiya (geisha house) at the age of eight, she learnt the difficult trade of a ‘person of art’ before becoming an okasan (mother who looks after her residents).Ī graduate of the literature department at Kanazawa Women’s College, Yuki Inoue received an honourable mention for the Oya Soichi Prize for her book in 1981, and it was treated like a valuable documentary. Not to be confused with the film of the same name adapted from the book Geisha by Arthur Golden, the book by the Japanese author entitled Mémoires d’une geisha (‘Memoirs of a Geisha’) (1980) is an enlightening testimony that retraces the story of Kinu Yamaguchi. © ‘Mémoires d'une geisha’, Éditions Picquier
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