Is memoirs of a geisha a true story

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Memoirs of a geisha door Arthur Golden

1. General information

The title of the book is “Memoirs of a Geisha”. It is written by Arthur Golden and first published in the year 1997.

2. Title of the book

The title of the book is very easy to explain.

The book is about the life of geisha’s in Tokyo. This book is a geisha’s memoir. It is about the life of Sayuri. A kind of biography of her, from when she was a child to what she is at the end of the story.

3. Information of the author

The author of this book is Arthur Golden. Arthur Golden (born December 6, 1956) is an American writer.

He is a member of the family who owns the New York Timers. Golden was born in Tennessee and grew up in Georgia. After his graduating in 1974 he attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980, he earned an M.A. in Japanese history at Columbia University, and learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Peking University in Beijing, he worked in Tokyo. When he returned to the United States, he earned an M.A. in E

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Is Memoirs of a Geisha based on true story?

by Adam Acar, PhD | Geisha

No, it is not based on a true story. However, a real geisha, named Mineko Iwasaki, sued the author of the book because of defamation. Surprisingly, not the plot, but some characters in the book resembled some of the real characters in Mineko Iwasaki's life that she shared with the author in a private conversation. Also, Mineko Iwasaki was uncomfortable with the way Arthur Golden (the author) portrayed geisha as if they are Japanese courtesans.

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In the early 1990s, Arthur Golden set out to write a novel about a topic that he had no previous background knowledge or study in. Upon trying to do the research he stumbled upon a person who could introduce him to the most famous geisha of the 20th century: Mineko Iwasaki. Mr. Golden had spoken with her on the assurance that his book would be an accurate representation of the geisha profession, and upon its release in 1997, it became an international bestseller. However, in order to sell more copies and to make it more sensational Mr. Golden be

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Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

2005 film by Rob Marshall

Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epicperioddrama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name by Arthur Golden.^[2]^[3] It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house (okiya) to support them by training as and eventually becoming a geisha under the pseudonym "Sayuri Nitta." The film centers around the sacrifices and hardship faced by pre-World War II geisha, and the challenges posed to geisha society by the war and a modernizing world. It stars Zhang Ziyi in the lead role, with Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, Suzuka Ohgo, and Samantha Futerman.

The film was produced by Steven Spielberg (through production companies Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures) and Douglas Wick (through Red Wagon Entertainment). Production was split between southern and northern California and a number of locations in Kyoto, including the Kiyomizu temple and the Fushimi In