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I was a little leery about reading this book, but was pleasantly surprised by the author and his tasteful handling of a potentially obscene subject matter. The "memoir" begins in a poor fishing village in 1929 Japan where nine-year-old Nitta Sayuri is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a geisha house. Sayuri records her efforts to learn the arts of a geisha...dance and music, wearing a kimono, the elaborate makeup and hair, the correct way to pour sake, and how to handle jealousy as we
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