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Autobiography of a Geisha Sayo Masuda
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki. The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Her opinion didn't seem to mesh with the content of Autobiography of a Geisha, written by a former onsen geisha. Mineko Iwasaki's Geisha: A Life. In contrast to these "one-night geisha", the true onsen geisha are in fact competent dancers and musicians. Plus, how can she comment on pre-war geisha life? Interesting article, nonetheless. Gaman: "endurance," "getting on with things," "putting up with things." The attitude of geisha that bad things aren't something to dwell on. Publisher: Vintage First Published: 1957 (Translation: 2003) 186 pages. Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda. The jealousy and competitiveness among the courtesans and the brutal punishments inflicted for the smallest fault are, unfortunately, not exaggerated (see e.g. Ono no Komachi is a sort of predecessor to the Japanese courtesean. There's nothing quite like sitting down and reading history from a first person encounter. Author: Sayo Masuda (Translated from Japanese by G. There doesn't seem to be a lot about it in English, other than Liza Dalby's book 'Little songs of the Geisha: traditional Japanese Ko-Uta' (Tuttle publishing, 1979).