Title: Contradictive and Imprecise
Product review: Lesley Downer has mentioned many times in the novel that geisha are not prostitutes and are not viable to associated with the word sex. However, she contradicts this statement by mentioning the mizuage and mirare, all of which mentioning geisha selling their bodies. She also makes many assumptions of the Japanese culture and character, but it seems that she bases all of these off of few accounts rather than vast research. There is also very little emphasis placed on what kinds of geisha she is talking about, because the geisha of Gion Kobu, would never associate themselves with such scandalous and degrading practices.Although it gives facts on history and such, it is greatly cumbersome in identifying the practices of geisha of different locations and classes. Approached most certainly with a Western interpretation, it just seems like a novel with a double entente that contradicts itself. Disappointing.
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