The Life of a Geisha
Author(s): Eleanor Underwood
"The Life of a Geisha" illustrates the fascinating world of Japan's powerful and seductive geishas, a fading yet beautiful world that has captured the imaginations of millions of readers of Arthur golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. This striking book contains full-color woodblock prints made during Japan's famous Edo Period, historic and contemporary photographs of geisha life, and images of the "floating world" Japan's mysterious artistic subculture. The accompanying text includes evocative Japanese poems and haikus. All celebrate the beauty and creativity of the geisha, who with her exquisitely detailed costume, elaborate make-up and hairstyle, and artfully ritualized behavior, chastely beguiles and entertains Japan's most powerful men.
1999. A near fine copy only marked by light rubbing to the board edges. The d/w is very good.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
- : Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
- : 01 January 1999
- : 28.60 cmmm X 26.70 cmmm X 1.30 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 64
- : en
- : hardcover
- : Eleanor Underwood