← Back to discovery

Geisha

Liza Crihfield Dalby

1983320 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1983
first published
  • 1983University of California Press · 347 pages · ENGISBN 9780520047426
  • 1985Vintage Books · 347 pages · ENGISBN 9780394728933
  • 1998University of California Press · 347 pages · ENGISBN 9780520204959
  • 2000Random House Mondadori · 320 pagesISBN 9788439705536
  • 2000Vintage · 357 pagesISBN 9780099286387

"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.

When and where

ThemesClass
How do you feel?