5/26/2023 0 Comments The geisha book![]() She remains a maid working for Mother, while Pumpkin is on her way to becoming a successful geisha under the protection and sponsorship of Hatsumomo. Incensed with anger, Mother discontinues Chiyo's training as a future geisha and turns her into a slave instead so she could pay off her debts. However, she falls off the roof when she attempts to escape and breaks her arm. One day, Chiyo devises a plan to run away and find her sister Satsu even with warnings from Pumpkin not to proceed with her plans. ![]() ![]() Despite her beauty, she cannot truly hide the brashness of her attitude. In the okiya, Chiyo meets Pumpkin, a young girl with whom she develops a deep friendship until circumstances changed everything between them Mother, who runs the okiya and whose only passion is money and Hatsumomo, the pretty geisha who sees Chiyo as a threat, thus, does everything to keep Chiyo from succeeding. ![]() However, Chiyo and Satsu were forcibly separated because instead of being accepted into the okiya, Satsu was sent to Kyoto's pleasure district to work as a prostitute. At an early age, her parents sold her and her sister Satsu to an okiya, which is a boarding house for geishas, in the district of Gion. ![]() Memoirs of a Geisha, a novel by Arthur Holden, is the story of Chiyo, later known as Sayuri, the main protagonist. ![]()
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