It also houses just one geisha, the malicious Hatsumomo, who is also one of the most popular in Gion. The okiya is run by three women: the elderly and grumbling Granny, the money-obsessed Mother, the okiya's mistress, and Auntie, a failed geisha who trained alongside Mother as her "sister" and the only one of the three who is generally nice to Chiyo. Determined to run away, Chiyo remains in the okiya to begin training as a geisha, along with another young girl her age living in the same okiya, whom she (and everyone else) has nicknamed Pumpkin. To Chiyo's dismay, her older sister Satsu is not sold into the Nitta okiya with her. Her mother is dying of what she suspects is bone cancer, and her father is very old and also believes death is coming. She narrates in a flashback format with continuous references to the time between her career and the present.īorn Sakamoto Chiyo (Chiyo Sakamoto) into the poverty-stricken fishing village of Yoroido on the coast of the Sea of Japan, she is sold into an okiya (a geisha boarding house) in Gion, the most prominent hanamachi (geisha district) in Kyoto when she is nine years old.
The novel begins with an introductory note by the fictional translator, a New York University professor named Jakob Haarhuis, who is the fictional author of the novel and has interviewed the retired geisha Nitta Sayuri (Sayuri Nitta). It stars the Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi as the main geisha, it was released on Monday, December 5th, 2005. The book itself contains many Japanese terms for various aspects of the geisha culture, occasionally using the Kyoto counterparts.Īnd eight years later in 2005, a film adaption of the novel was created. Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel written by author Arthur Golden, it was first published in 1997, the novel is told in first-person perspective and tells the fictional story/biography of a Geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before and after World War II.
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