MADAME SADAYAKKO Lesley Downer - The Geisha Who Seduced The West (Japan)

MADAME SADAYAKKO: the biography of Japan's first superstar.

USED BOOK IN GOOD, AGING CONDITION: read and aged but a good clean reading copy, clean with some general reading wear to cover, corners and spine; pages are clean and tanning with age; good strong binding. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: Madame Sadayakko was the ultimate geisha, so exquisite that the prime minister of the day paid a fortune to deflower her. But she was a rebel who wanted to carve her own path in life. In 1899 she married a subversive avant garde actor and, with a troupe of other actors, they set out on the first ever tour of the West by a Japanese theatre company. Sadayakko took to the stage and became an instant star. She danced for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London, Picasso painted her, Gide swooned over her and Rodin admired her. But back in Japan, she suffered the stigma of being an ex-geisha and an actor and was forced, in the end, to make a terrible choice - between respectability and love.

Book Details

Code: SKU2128

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Large Paperback

Pages: 335

Published: 2003 by Review, UK

ISBN: 0755310314

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