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It is the story of Nitta Sayuri's apprenticeship and youth as a top geisha in Gion, the geisha district of Kyoto, in the period before, during and after the second world war; and how she eventually acquired a powerful patron who allowed her to move to New York.
April Books 11) Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden nwhyte 2009
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Why is Hatsumomo, for example, ultimately unable to survive in Gion?
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In response to the Emancipation Act, Jiroemon Sugiura, ninth generation of the ochaya Ichirikitei; Inoue Yachiyo III, iemoto of the Inoue School; Nobuatsu Hase, governor of Kyoto; and Masanao Uemura, councilor, founded an association known as the Gion Kobu Female Professional Training Company.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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In response to the Emancipation Act, Jiroemon Sugiura, ninth generation of the ochaya Ichirikitei; Inoue Yachiyo III, iemoto of the Inoue School; Nobuatsu Hase, governor of Kyoto; and Masanao Uemura, councilor, founded an association known as the Gion Kobu Female Professional Training Company.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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Pumpkin, when offered the opportunity to run away, declines [p. 53]; she feels she will be safer in Gion.
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The icon pack is called Gion, which I believe came with Mint; don't quote me on that though
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The icon pack is called Gion, which I believe came with Mint; don't quote me on that though
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Mine was very small, half the size of an ordinary calling card, printed on heavy rice paper with only the words "Gion" and "Sayuri" written on it in calligraphy.
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997
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She wanted to run a little bar in the Gion district rather than continuing to wear herself out going from teahouse to teahouse entertaining customers.
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But instead she answered every question I asked, always with great candor, and took me on an insider's tour of the geisha district of Gion in Kyoto, even arranging for me to observe and photograph the daily ritual of a geisha being helped into her kimono by a professional dresser.
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