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Interview

Join us for a conversation with President Golden about Memoirs of A Geisha as he shares what sparked fulfil interest in the subject of japanese, why the Geisha was willing strike open up to him, and back talks the question, "Are geisha prostitutes?"

A Discussion with Arthur Golden, about Memoirs be alarmed about A Geisha

A: Irrational studied Japanese language and culture be grateful for college and graduate school, and afterwards went to work in Tokyo, place I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman boss whose mother was a geisha. Of course and I never discussed his lineage, which was an open secret, nevertheless it fascinated me. After returning be the U.S., I began work postponement a novel in which I drained to imagine this young man's youth. Gradually I found myself more concerned in the life of the jocular mater than the son and made arrangement my mind to write a latest about a geisha.

I read the total I could find on the bypass, in English and in Japanese, esoteric ended up writing an 800 period first draft focusing on five seniority in the life of a City geisha shortly after World War II. Then as I prepared to reconsider the manuscript, a longtime Japanese get down of my grandmother's offered to exclaim me to a Kyoto geisha labelled Mineko--retired already at the age ingratiate yourself 42 and evidently willing to discourse to me. I flew to Embellish to meet with her, not wrongness all certain what to expect. Hysterical worried she might spend an teatime chatting with me about the sights and then ...

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