Geisha, a Life

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Geisha, a Life

Auteur(s): Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

Narrateur(s): Cindy Kay

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Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only 5 years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next 25 years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form.

In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of 29 to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that "existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past."

Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geisha's development. Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world.

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I’ve been enjoying the story through chapter 5. Chapter 6 was a lot to take in without feeling the need to draw a diagram. I was hoping I could simply continue listening and be reminded of who was who.

But when I reach chapter 7, the tone changed even more so. The author is telling stories of how other people reacted in their behalf. I want to know how _the author_ knew this to be: How these stories were told to her. Not tell their story.

I’ll keep listening, but I might have to remember she is an unreliable narrator in the meantime.

Chapter 7 feels like fiction