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	Mineko Iwasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mineko Iwasaki was born on November 2,1949 in Kyoto.
		Mineko left home to begin studying traditional Japanese dance at the Iwasaki okiya (geisha house) in the Gion district of Kyoto when she was only five years old.
		Iwasaki felt betrayed by Golden's use of information she considered confidential, and denounced Memoirs of a Geisha as being an inaccurate depiction of the life of a geiko.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mineko_iwasaki (608 words)

	Geisha : A Life by Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown - Slashbyte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mineko is not particularly beautiful, can be quite rude and vindictive at times, and openly admits in the book that she was not very good at entertaining customers.
		It is Mineko's version of her own life as a geisha and should not be seen as a representative account of geisha in general.
		Mineko Iwasaki's book also allows us a view into the life of geiko but, as with most autobiographies, the story is told from the most advantageous point of the living author.
	slashbyte.com /r-2/m-Books/b-2327/a-0743444299/Default.aspx (1248 words)

	Geisha - My Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mineko Iwasaki was born in Kyoto in 1949.
		Iwasaki agreed to an interview by the author because she thought she could help dispel "the Fujiyama-geisha image of a woman who sells herself to her customers." She was shocked when Golden's novel turned out to be a narrative that contradicted her very intentions.
		Iwasaki was taken into an "okiya" (geisha house) at the age of five and became a "maiko" (geisha-in-training) at 15.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/exgeisha.html (364 words)

	Amazon.ca: Geisha: A Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Now in her 50s, Mineko Iwasaki was one of the most famed geishas of her generation (and the chief informant for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha).
		Mineko is probably best known in the Western world as the geisha who sued Arthur Golden who wrote the bestseller "Memoirs of a Geisha", in which there are many inaccuracies which help to further the misconceptions long held in the western world that geisha are nothing more than ladies of the night.
		Mineko's story is certainly quite fascinating to read and delivers to us a real and personal journey through the life of one of the most famous geiko to emerge from Gion.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743462718 (1011 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Geisha: A Life
		Children's Literature Review: Now in her fifties, Mineko Iwasaki was once the best geisha of her generation, retiring at 29 because of disillusionment with the archaic system of her profession.
		Iwasaki left her home when she was five to live in the karyukai and seldom saw her parents.
		About the Author: Born in 1949, Mineko Iwasaki was Japan's star geisha until she retired at the age of twenty-nine.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/search.jsp?mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN&srchTerms=0743444299 (490 words)

	Geisha - Overview and Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Iwasaki explains the intricacies and politics of the business while telling of her life as a geisha in post-World War II Japan.
		Mineko Iwasaki is a strong willed woman who becomes the Number One geisha of Kyoto’s top geisha house, the Iwasaki oikya.
		As Mineko describes her life in the oikya, she also includes the histories of the Gion Kobu district where she lived, and the women in the oikya, along with the details of the social-political structure between geishas, their clients, and the businesses that support the geisha arts.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/geisha/A_life.html (296 words)

	Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki - read excerpt
		The Iwasaki geisha house was located in the Gion Kobu district of Kyoto, the most famous and traditional karyukai of them all.
		Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha.
		Born in 1949, Mineko began training in the arts of dance and etiquette when she was five years old.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/geisha.htm (1280 words)

	Geisha - Banany Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mineko states, “This alternative definition of the word ”mizuage” has been the source of some confusion about what it means to be a geisha.” Mineko lost her virginity to a man she loved and whom she was in a long-term relationship with.
		Mineko on the other hand chose to move to the Iwasaki okiya, was educated until junior high, and was treated like a princess.
		Mineko had the oddest habit: a requisite to guarantee herself a night’s rest was to suckle on her mother’s breast.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mineko Iwasaki is suing Golden and his publisher for breach of contract after they allegedly violated a verbal confidentiality agreement and distorted her life story in promotional events.
		In papers filed this week in the United States District Court in Manhattan, Ms Iwasaki says Golden wrongly declared she was sold into the geisha world and that her virginity was auctioned to the highest bidder.
		According to the court papers, Ms Iwasaki is seeking an amount "no less" than an "appropriate percentage" of what she believes are almost $A20 million in sales for the novel.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/tarnished.txt (351 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: Real Geisha, Real Story -- Dec. 02, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When Iwasaki stepped outside her home, she was greeted by applause and congratulations from a swarm of admirers who had come for a glimpse of the young geisha's debut.
		And what a story it is. Born in 1950, Iwasaki says she knew by the age of three that she wanted to become a geisha and, at the age of five, left her family and moved for training into an okiya, or geisha household.
		Iwasaki wasn't the delicate blossom that she seemed: she chased the customer around the ochaya and, after catching up with him, whacked him over the head with a wooden block.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021202-393813,00.html (867 words)

	News and Features \| Remaking a memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With a new autobiography, former geisha Mineko Iwasaki seeks to reclaim a history she believes was tarnished in the best-selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha
		Today, Golden and Iwasaki are embroiled in a lawsuit over his fictionalized account of her life as a geisha (also called geiko), and neither is talking about the issues in dispute, including Golden’s assertion that Iwasaki sold her virginity for $720,000 as part of her mizuage, or coming-of-age ceremony.
		Instead, Iwasaki has recently published her own book, Geisha, A Life (Atria Books, 2002), in which she seeks to shed light on a world that for centuries has been shrouded in mystery and which she claims has been, as a result, widely misunderstood.
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/qa/documents/02473409.htm (2067 words)

	A Woman Scorned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Born in Kyoto in 1950, Iwasaki first encountered the flower and willow world when she was still a child.
		Iwasaki, for her part, insists she met Golden through two former customers, the late Koichi Tsukamoto, the founder of Wacoal, a lingerie-maker based in Kyoto, and the late Akio Morita, the founder of Sony.
		For at least a year Iwasaki was happy for the success of the book, which tells the story of an old woman recounting the cruelty and decadence of her life as a geisha.
	www2.gol.com /users/coynerhm/a_woman_scorned.htm (1615 words)

	Geisha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		autobiographies broaden knowledge of both of these groups: Geisha: a Life, by Mineko Iwasaki, Kyoto's top geisha in the 60s and 70s, written with Rande Brown, and My Life...
		Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki, now 53...
		The word geisha literally means "art person" or "artisan." Geisha were very common in the 18th and 19th centuries, and are still in existence today, although their numbers are dwindling.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Geisha (680 words)

	Large Print Reviews - Geisha, A Life - A Book Review
		Mineko was the eleventh child born to her parents.
		Mineko also examines that various stages of a geisha's career as she passes from being a mere student to a maiko, and then on to becoming a full-fledge geisha.
		Note: Mineko Iwasaki was the inspiration and the main informant for Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur A Golden's fictional work about the life of a geisha.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /geisha.html (871 words)

	BBC News \| SHOWBIZ \| Geisha sues over book
		Mineko Iwasaki, of Kyoto, Japan, filed the lawsuit in a New York federal court on Tuesday against writer Arthur Golden, seeking a percentage of the $10 million (£6.9m) in sales generated by his book.
		She is also seeking damages for using her life story as the basis of the book and violating an agreement to keep her identity secret.
		In the lawsuit, Ms Iwasaki says she met Mr Golden in 1992 - 12 years after she retired as a geisha - and agreed to be interviewed by him on the condition of complete anonymity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1295818.stm (528 words)

	VIBGYOR: Interpreting Culture
		She insists throughout the book that her father, an aristocrat in reduced circumstances, was not, as accused, a baby-seller; yet he did just that with three of his four daughters.
		Mineko heaps scorn upon this eldest sister throughout the book because she "dishonored" the family and caused her father grief.
		Mineko was not typical because she was heiress-apparent of the house, and was always treated with a great deal of honor.
	colours.typepad.com /vibgyor/2005/07/interpreting_cu.html (1455 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - BOOKS
		Mineko Iwasaki was a geiko, or "woman of art," an "Iwasaki Atotori" successor to the house of Iwasaki, the most prestigious in Japan, starting at the incredibly young age of five.
		The legal issues of her formal adoption into the house of Iwasaki and the problems and perks it created are a snapshot of a feudal society that valued a specific kind of woman so highly it could take her from her parents before she was properly weaned.
		Mineko went from apprentice to a full-blown professional master of tea ceremony, banquet etiquette, conversation and the costume attire of a Heian princess.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /books/june03/geisha.html (680 words)

	Amazon.com: Geisha : A Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki
		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.
		Mineko delivers an absorbing account of her life and training as a very top geisha in Gion, the most exclusive of Kyoto's geisha districts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743444329?v=glance (2226 words)

	Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown: Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown: Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk
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	Powell's Books - Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
		Mineko Iwasaki was five when she began her lifelong training in the rigorous arts of dance and etiquette.
		Breaking three centuries of silence for the first time, Iwasaki shares her remarkable journey, set against the backdrop of Japanese mores and customs during the 1960s and seventies.
		Born in 1949, Mineko Iwasaki was Japan's star geisha until she retired at the age of twenty-nine.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0743444299-4 (511 words)

	Review On Geisha, a Life: Mineko Iwasaki - Mineko Iwasaki by starbucks -- MouthShut.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is a first hand account of the life that Minenko Iwasaki lived, when she was a geisha.
		Minenko is the name that was given to her by a family of women who raised her in the geisha tradition.
		Consequently, she closes down the Iwasaki household at the “ripe” age of 29 and leaves Gion forever.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Geisha___a_Life:_Mineko_Iwasaki_-_Mineko_Iwasaki-43386-1.html (829 words)

	Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki 0743220366 - Direct Textbook Details and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		My only complaint (such as it is) is that after 30+ chapters with Mineko Iwasaki, there seemed to be a great rush through the years following her retirement to the present day.
		And while yes, this memoir is mainly about Mineko's time as a geiko, it was a bit disappointing to glaze over this strong and vibrant woman's later years when I had grown so attached to reading her tales.
		Mineko is just stating things as they happened with no depth.
	www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0743220366 (555 words)

	OtakuBoards - Jeh's Book Club
		Mineko was so upset (as it was her favourite fan), that she ordered her maid to dispose of it that very evening.
		Mineko felt that this was very rude behavior...so she deliberately sat very close to Prince Phillip and flirted with him.
		Did you know that Mineko Iwasaki was one of his primariy sources of information, but she ended the relationship because she was dissatisfied with the way his story represented Geisha?
	www.otakuboards.com /printthread.php?t=29558 (2296 words)

	Geisha of Gion The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki Published by Simon & Schuster - Book Reviews by Jeremy Fenton - The ...
		Despite the Geisha's job description and Iwasaki's reputation as being the closest one comes to perfection in the role, her book reveals that in many ways she was the exact opposite of what one would expect from the demands of the job.
		She now strongly objects to not only being essentially identified by Golden as the basis for his book (he even thanked her by first name in it), but also what she sees as his use of "distorted fact" and portrayal of the Geisha as "going from man to man".
		These days Iwasaki lives outside the confines, responsibilities and rewards of the Geisha tradition (she returns to the karyukai districts now only as an honoured guest), and essentially predicts the end of the flower and willow world's "glorious tradition" through lack of financial support.
	www.echonews.com /903/book_reviews.html (504 words)

	Geisha by Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0743444299
		Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form.
		Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that ""existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past.
		She illustrates how it coexisted within post-World War II Japan at a time when the country was undergoing its radical transformation from a post-feudal society to a modern one.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0743444299.html (702 words)

	Reading: Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki - Mineko Iwasaki and Rande Brown
		Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki - Mineko Iwasaki and Rande Brown
		Having read a couple of other Geisha novels-masquerading-as-autobiographies, I was pleased to find a genuine autobiography of one of Japan's greatest geisha, and Mineko Iwasaki's book provides plenty of detail on the Willow World in the second half of the 20th century.
		At times her narrative takes on an air of irritating superiority, particularly the sections where she berates clients who have unwittingly damaged her fine (and fabulously expensive) attire and accessories, well after the actual events have taken place.
	www.sparklytrainers.com /reading/archive/2003/12/26/geisha_of_gion_the_memoir_of_mineko_iwasaki_mineko_iwasaki_and_rande_brown.html (154 words)

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