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“My earliest memories are of being a nursemaid in the home of landowners in the rural district of Gohara, near Shiojiri in Nagano Prefecture.”
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The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life and hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geusha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of sex for sale, unadorned by trappings of wealth and celebrity.