Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West by Lesley Downer

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West

Lesley Downer

326 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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Madame Sadayakko was the ultimate geisha, so exquisite that the prime minister of the day paid a fortune to deflower her. But she was a rebel who wanted to carve her own path in life. In 1899 she married a subversive avant garde actor and, with a ...

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