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Women of the Pleasure Quarters

Perhaps not coincidentally, I picked up this book by Lesley Downer at the library last week before even seeing the review. Does the world really need one more Westerner's attempt to explain the world of the geisha? After this one, maybe not. Lesley Downer's ability to go behind the veiled world and talk to geisha and maiko, old and young, distinguishes this book. Overall it is very well-researched, but never dry, and more importantly, never judgemental or condescending.

Japagaijin

Diane Brown sounds like someone I wish I had known in Japan, someone open to things Japanese and willing to embrace a strange, new world.

Angela Jeff's article makes me want to run out and buy this book.

Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
February 03, 2002

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