A review by teenlibrarian
Geisha by Liza Dalby

5.0

About to travel to Japan and I wanted to reread this book. Daley tried to study the geisha with a semi-anthropological attempt to write about geisha. This includes: the history of the location, the evolution and boom in the early 20th century of geisha, and the conditions in the 1970’s. She breaks down etiquette, training, post geisha life, interconnectedness of the flower and willow world. Lastly, she describes her time when she ‘became’ a geisha, she didn’t have an actual tea ceremony with her big sister because they knew she want committing her life to becoming a geisha. Loved rereading this book!