This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.Arthur Golden
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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Well, I'm working on something that has absolutely nothing to do with Japan. I finally got the book written on Japan that I wanted to write.
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
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