Mineko Iwasaki

Mineko Iwasaki, la geisha más famosa del mundo, reveló a Arthur Golden todos los secretos de su vida y la de estas elegantes damas dedicadas al arte de la música, la danza y la conversación. Golden lo conto en Memorias de una geisha, una novela publicada en una treintena de paises. Ahora, tras demandar al escritor por difamacion, ruptura de contrato y violacion de copyright por revelar su identidad; Iwasaki ha decidido contar su verdadera historia - dolida, sobre todo, por la indiscrecion y la luz arrojada sobre la ceremonia de su mizuage, la perdida de la virginidad, a cambio de una pequeña fortuna. El libro consta de una introduccion, treinta capitulos y un epilogo sobre cual es la situacion actual de la protagonista.

Mineko Iwasaki avec Rande Brown Ma vie de geisha « On a dit de moi que j'étais la plus grande geisha de ma génération. Certes, j'ai recueilli les plus beaux succès. Mon destin a été jalonné d'extraor

A powerful and intimate memoir of a real-life geisha, Geisha, A Life reveals the hidden world of Kyotos traditional arts, Japanese tea ceremonies, and cultural secrets through the eyes of Japans most renowned and pioneering geisha.No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out. Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. She would enchant kings and princes, captains of industry, and titans of the entertainment world, some of whom would become her dearest friends. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japans history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now-fading art form.In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of twenty-nine to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that "existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past." She illustrates how it coexisted within post-World War II Japan at a time when the country was undergoing its radical transformation from a post-feudal society to a modern one. There is much mystery and misunderstanding about what it means to be a geisha. I hope this story will help explain what it is really like and also serve as a record of this unique component of Japans cultural history, writes Mineko Iwasaki. Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geishas development. Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world.

En Japón, existen unos distritos especiales, llamados karyukai, que están dedicados al disfrute de los placeres estéticos. En estas comunidades viven y trabajan las geishas, profesionales instruidas en las artes amatorias. El término karyukai significa «el mundo de la flor y el sauce». Así, toda geisha es en esencia hermosa, como una flor, y a la vez elegante, flexible y fuerte como un sauce.Este libro es un testimonio imprescindible sobre la verdadera vida de las geishas y un éxito de ventas en todo el mundo.

Mineko Iwasaki desvela en estas conmovedoras memorias muchas incógnitas sobre el mundo de esas elegantes damas dedicadas a las artes de la música, la danza y a la conversación.

Mineko Iwasaki desvela en estas conmovedoras memorias muchas incógnitas sobre el mundo de esas elegantes damas dedicadas a las artes de la música, la danza y la conversación. Si durante más de trescientos años las geishas formaron una comunidad protegidad por un antiguo codigo de silencio, Iwasaki despliega ante los ojos del lector su verdadera historia como integrante de un grupo de cuya peculiar actividad y caracter sagrado y secreto nadie antes se habia atrevido a hablar.