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Title: A book worth rereading again and again.
Review: As a student of Japanese history and Language I was very hesitant about reading this book. I refused to read it for years afraid of a sorid tale in the typical western image of the geisha. I finally picked it up one day by chance and was pleasently surprised. This is by far one of my favorite books. It has a capitavating story but what makes it so wonderful is the scenery of Japan so vividly described. I love reading this book because it takes me back to the time I lived in japan the climant the food. The rich culture and the meld of modern and traditional that still exists if not so much in modern times with the Geisha themselves. In Japan you can walk down a modern business street and run smack into a shrine, see men dressed in business suits and a woman in a kimono. This book essential breaths that and also does well at capturing the modernizing changes that have happened in the last century. I highly recommend this book to read again and again.
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