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Published on Mar 17, 2016
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"AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GEISHA" By: Sayo Masuda.
Mosaic by:Sarah Johnson
Time Period: Early to mid 1900s in Japan
This is Sayo Masuda at a library in Japan with her English translated book.
Summery
The book 'Autobiography of a Geisha is basically the life story of one girl.
In the beginning, it tells of Sayo's hard ships as a child , before she was sold to a geisha school, where her life got worse.
In the middle, it tells on how she became a popular geisha. Then she was bought. Soon after she awakens to true love, only to have that love stripped from her. She goes back to her family on the country side. There she works for food.
In the end, she considers suicide many times before she realizes the only way to 'cleanse' her soul is to bring happiness to children.
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Published Review
"A remarkable story [that] tells us a great deal about how unkind a society can be to the more unfortunate of its fellow citizens... An important piece of social history of Japan in the 1940s-1950s. G.G Rowley's translation is very good indeed. Her language is always natural and fluent, and very persuasive."
—Edwin McCellan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Yale University.
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Published Reveiw
Something of importance to the plot is that at a young age, Sayo was abused, making her afraid of people. It states this in page 45. "If God came down and asked me if I could go anywhere, where would I go, I would answer, 'Somewhere with no people.'".
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This is a picture of , Sayo's first and last love... Motoyama-San.
The Inari Shrine is where Sayo learned to be a geisha, and her home for most of her life.
A significant event is when an old man finds her before she dies of hypothermia. Of corse, in this part she was depressed and wanted to die. This old man helped encourage her to try and redeem herself. This is found on page 152.
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A significant Event
Is when she is sold to the geisha. On page number 32, she is sold to the geisha. This is significant because this is where she is taught to be, basically a prostitute. This is a struggle she has for most of her life before she realizes her mistakes.
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A significant event
Is when she 'awakens' to true love. This is like the turning point in her life, when she realizes what she is doing is NOT honorable, and she wants to change her life. This is located on page 89
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A significant event is when he brother dies (by committing suicide). On page 131, this is when she died on the inside, and was like a corpse. This was the lowest point in her life before she found happiness again.
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Some of Sayo's internal conflict is when she is choosing between her own happiness, and the happiness of a child. It doesn't take long, but she does the right thing and chooses the child's well being over her own. Page 139.
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An external conflict for Sayo is when she is rebelling against Cockeye, the man who bought her out of the geisha shrine. Page 93.
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