Masuda's account of being a geisha in rural Japan at a hot springs resort is at once intriguing and heartbreaking. There is nothing idyllic in her description of geisha training or life between the ...
Bernadette Murphy is a regular book reviewer for the Calendar section. Arthur Golden’s 1997 “Memoirs of a Geisha” introduced readers to the glamorous life of Sayuri, a Kyoto geisha, in a realm in ...