Memoirs of a Geisha

[UncleSam]

Memoirs of a Geisha

Quote:In 1930s Japan 8-year-old Chiyo lives in the small fishing village of Yoroido on the coast of the Sea of Japan with her mother who is sick from bone cancer and her elderly father. It is during the Great Depression and he can barely afford to take care of Chiyo's mother. He gives Chiyo and her 15-year-old sister Satsu to a man named Mr. Tanaka who takes them to Kyoto, where they are both sold. Chiyo is sold to the Nitta okiya, a geisha house in the geisha district of Gion. Satsu is sold as a prostitute to a jorou-ya, or brothel, named Tatsuyo in the Miyagawa-cho district, which is south of Gion. Chiyo meets Mrs. Nitta, or "Mother", and Granny, the mistresses of the okiya. She befriends the okiya's other trainee, a girl she nicknames Pumpkin (???), on account of how when she focuses her tongue points out of the side of her mouth, and with her round face it looks like a stem emerging from a pumpkin. Everyone later calls her Pumpkin as well, even her customers after she becomes a geisha and has her name changed officially.

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