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Title: Looked real to a Japanese's eyes
Review: When I picked up this book, I thought that this must be another popular "geisha" feature by foreign writers which does not have much of a true ring to it to a Japanese's eyes. I am glad that I have misjudged that point. I could not put it down once I started reading. The description was very intense and detailed. It was hard for me to admit the fact that this book is a complete fiction by an American writer, rather than a translated real story told by a Japanese geisha as the story intended to look like. The Japanese tranlation (just released in Japan) tells how well the novel is written to surprise Japanese readers. I can't help admiring this well-researched, lovery Japanese geisha story, which must be very close to the old geisha world in Gion, Kyoto.
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