Gallagher's contribution to the geisha book niche rises above many of its competitors, thanks to its ambitious scope. The author, an Englishman who works as a translator in Japan, closely examines a ...

Bernadette Murphy is a regular book reviewer for the Calendar section. Arthur Golden’s 1997 “Memoirs of a Geisha” introduced readers to the glamorous life of Sayuri, a Kyoto geisha, in a realm in ...

After long years of development and some tricky Hollywood dealmaking, a movie version of the best-selling novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” is headed into production. The book became a sensation around the ...

From age five, Iwasaki trained to be a geisha (or, as it was called in her Kyoto district, a geiko), learning the intricacies of a world that is nearly gone. As the first geisha to truly lift the veil ...