Status Updates From Vida de una geisha

how educated most geiko must’ve been as they studied all the different customers they planned to entertain from music to politics to literature etc.

The purity and cleansing of japanese culture has always intrigued me. I find it interesting the men aren’t allowed in the okiya. The way Mineko writes this, you can hear her tone of irritation around the misconceptions that geisha/geiko “entertain” men at their abodes.

Shutting down the geisha districts during the war is an interesting topic between Iwasaki & Golden’s books. Mineko’s family is well off and wouldn’t have suffered as hard but I’m curious of the people who didn’t have money or family to return to. Factory life must’ve been miserable but Iwasaki family didn’t have to experience it.