Geisha

Liza Crihfield Dalby

About this book

"In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind "older sisters" bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. In Geisha, this observant ethnographer paints an intoxicating picture of the "flower and willow world" to which she gained entry"--Amazon.com.

Subjects

  • geisha
  • geisha's
  • geishas
  • manners and customs
  • mœurs et coutumes
  • social life and customs