Mineko Iwasaki

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Born in 1949, Mineko Iwasaki was Japan’s star geisha until she retired at the age of twenty-nine. She now lives in a Kyoto suburb, with her family.

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Books by Mineko Iwasaki

Geisha

A Life

By Mineko Iwasaki

With Rande Brown

A powerful and intimate memoir of a real-life geisha, Geisha, A Life reveals the hidden world of Kyoto’s traditional arts, Japanese tea ceremonies, and cultural secrets through the eyes of Japan’s most renowned and pioneering geisha.

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