The very word "geisha" means artist, and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. Remember Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans, and we're not wives.To understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find that her prayers were answered.can that not be called happiness? After all, these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. And yet to learn of kindness, after so much unkindness. To a man, Geisha can only be half a wife.I could see it now as a stepping-stone to something else. To become a geisha.well, that was hardly a purpose in life. Now I understood the thing I´d overlooked the point wasn't to become a geisha but to be one.Until the real future came falling from the air. Rumors of cities evaporating into clouds of smoke. A year without news, except news of death.My life had turned into a game, and only she knew the rules. Your honorable sister says, "Cut your leg," you cut your leg.Water can carve its way even through stone.and when trapped, water makes a new path. My mother always said my sister Satsu was like wood as rooted to the earth as a sakura tree.Geisha is an artist of the floating world. The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves.It has three words.but the poet has scratched them out. At the temple, there is a poem called "Loss", carved into the stone. ![]() For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile without its mysteries it cannot survive. A story like mine should never be told.1 Narrator (Sayuri as an elderly woman).
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