Status Updates From Storia proibita di una geisha

So the Madame Oiyma from the okiya came to ask permission to take one of the older daughters as an apprentice; it’s crazy how this lady’s whole life was rearranged for entertainment.

Like the parents were VERY much firm about letting Tomako choose to train as a geiko and very firm about not letting Masako go cause she was too young

yeah I’m glad she made Arthur Golden pay; I’d be getting a piece of every royalty heck for the rest of his life and his kid’s lives. He’s a thief and it’s not surprising he comes he’s from the family that owns and operates the NY Times

She wasn’t even born until after WWII but she fled the okiya before they started bombing Japan??

Also she’s a Scorpio 🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽

Wow I’m literally playing the movie in my head and realizing how much of it was lies. Mr Tanaka, the neighbor wasn’t even a real person. Tanaka was her family name—her noble family’s name. MOAG was literally poverty porn—Mineko was born to noble, titled families and CHOSE to be a geisha. Hollywood continues to be Hollywood…

i have been recommended this book as an alternative to Memoirs of a Geisha (which I actually have read, but like a zillion years ago) as the author is an actual former community member writing about her own experiences rather than a white Western dude (cough cough Arthur Golden). ¡a ver qué tal!

I think I’m gonna have to change my rating on Memoirs of a Geisha when I get done with Mineko Iwasaki’s book; two seconds in and I’m finding out her origin story in the other book AND the movie is a lie!