![]() During the 1960s and early ’70s, “when Japan was undergoing the radical transformation from a post-feudal to a modern society,” the now-52-year-old Iwasaki trained to become “certainly the most successful” geisha of her generation had she not taken up this line of work, she writes, she would instead have become a Buddhist nun or a policewoman. ![]() there are special districts, known as karyukai, that are dedicated to the enjoyment of aesthetic pleasure.” This “flower and willow world” has been a very specialized field for Japanese women for the last 300 years, she adds, and it endures even today. In her homeland, Iwasaki’s account begins, “. ![]() An exponent of the highly ritualized-and highly misunderstood-Japanese art form tells all. ![]()
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