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Geisha

By: Liza Crihfield Dalby,Liza Dalby

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Geisha

By: Liza Crihfield Dalby,Liza Dalby

The author, an American anthropologist, describes her experiences during the year she spent as a Japanese geisha, and looks at the role of women, and geishas, in modern Japan

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380

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Univ of California Press

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0520047427

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9780520047426

East Wind Melts the Ice

By: Liza Dalby

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In this collection of essays Liza Dalby takes the 72 seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac as seeds, and grows them into a year's journal, entwining personal experience, natural phenomena, and ruminations on the cultural aesthetics of China, Japan, and California. Written from Dalby's perspective as an anthropologist and gardener, the essays explore how the Asian calendar has grounded her awareness of time and place. Drawing connections between philology and nature, memory and experience, they draw on her experiences over the years she spent in Japan where she first went to live at age 16. She also conducted fieldwork on a tiny island in the Inland sea, worked as the only non-Japanese geisha, and painted her teeth black to recreate the courtly fashions of the eleventh century. The essays also delve into memories of keeping a pet butterfly, roasting rice cakes with her children, watching whales, and pampering worms to make compost. In the manner of the Japanese personal poetic essay form, together they comprise 72 windows into a life lived between cultures, resulting in a dazzling and down-to-earth mosaic-like memoir.

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318

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0701181044

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9780701181048

Geisha

25th Anniversary Edition, Updated with a New Preface

By: Liza Dalby

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Geisha

25th Anniversary Edition, Updated with a New Preface

By: Liza Dalby

Discusses the geisha--practioners of music and dance and unmarried companions to the Japanese male elite.

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392

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Univ of California Press

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0520257898

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9780520257894

East Wind Melts the Ice

A Memoir Through the Seasons

By: Liza Dalby

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East Wind Melts the Ice

A Memoir Through the Seasons

By: Liza Dalby

To read East Wind Melts the Ice is to slip into a time stream that is both as long and sinuous as history and as ephemeral as the present moment. Drawing inspiration from the thousand year old history of Japanese poetic diaries, and form from the ancient Chinese almanac that she uses to contain her musings, Liza Dalby has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of translating the sensibility of the Heian Court of 11th century Japan into the context of contemporary America. The result is a stunning chronicle of the beauty of time passing and an evocation of the transient and whimsical nature of all things."—Ruth Ozeki, author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation "I imagine Liza Dalby writing this book in an ancient library, a lion sleeping at her side, as in the paintings of Saint Jerome. As she collects and layers arcane and fascinating pieces of knowledge, she builds her own very personal almanac packed with the wonder of loving two cultures, the intense inner life of each season, and boundless curiosity of the scholar/child. This is a book to dip in and out of throughout the year."—Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun "Liza Dalby's memoir of the seasons is as fresh and captivating as springtime. A very special book."—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma "This beautiful book awakens the senses. A journal, an almanac of the seasons, and a series of reflections on ancient Eastern Chinese and Japanese cultures, here you will find subtle observations of rain and heat, tangerines, mulberries and paulownia trees, crickets and doves forming a rich tapestry as they are woven with evocative fragments of history—stories of geishas, of salesmen who sold bulk fireflies, of the wood that was used for kimono chests, of emptiness in the tea ceremony. Like a lush garden, this book is meant to savor."—Susan Griffin, author of The Book of the Courtesans

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356

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Univ of California Press

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0520259912

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9780520259911

Ko-Uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World

By: Liza Crihfield

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Ko-Uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World

By: Liza Crihfield

This book of Japanese poetry and lyrics explores a little-known style of Japanese song called Ko-Uta. A Ko-Uta is translated as "little song" in Japanese. Unfamiliar to most Westerners, ko-uta are particularly in tune with the tradition of Japan's Edo-era merchants. Some ko-uta are aesthetic, many are earthy. Ko-uta are sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen—a traditional, three-stringed Japanese lute. Ko-uta come to life when they are sung, and the best example of where they live is in the geisha world. To help give some idea of the geisha world, this Japanese music book has provided a complete score of one song. Readers with some experience with haiku and other forms of Japanese poetry will find that ko-uta share many things with those forms. Yet, ko-uta retain their own unique interest, making this book a fascinating addition to any collection of Japanese literature or art.

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107

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462918107

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9781462918102

Little Songs Of The Geisha

Traditional Japanese Ko-uta

By: Liza Dalby

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Little Songs Of The Geisha

Traditional Japanese Ko-uta

By: Liza Dalby

Traditional Japanese ko-uta are the musical embodiment of the Japanese geisha in the intoxicating "flower and willow world." Literally, these are "little songs" sung by a geisha who accompanies herself on the 3-stringed shamisen. Liza Dalby, an American who is fully trained in the arts of the geisha, is a magnificent guide who brings alive the spirit of this delightful musical form. This book presents beautiful calligraphy and vivid translations of 25 ko-uta, to which Dalby adds lively explanatory notes illuminating the puns and Japanese literary devices which might otherwise elude the Western reader. She also provides an intro. on the geisha and ko-uta. Also provides traditional musical notations for the shamisen as well as in standard Western form.

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106

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0756774926

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9780756774929

Geisha

By: Liza Dalby

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Geisha

By: Liza Dalby

Gesellschafterinnen oder Edelhuren? Zwischen diesen beiden Extremen bewegen sich westliche Vorstellungen über Geishas. Die amerikanische Ethnologin Liza Dalby wollte es genau wissen. Als erste Ausländerin ließ sie sich in einem Teehaus in Kyoto zur Geisha ausbilden und erlernte diesen traditionsreichen Beruf mit all seiner raffinierten Etikette. Ihr Erlebnisbericht bietet einen einzigartigen Einblick in eine faszinierende fremde Welt.

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329

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Rowohlt Verlag GmbH

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3688107470

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9783688107476

Hidden Buddhas

A Novel of Karma and Chaos

By: Liza Dalby

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Hidden Buddhas

A Novel of Karma and Chaos

By: Liza Dalby

According to Buddhist theology, the world is suffering through a final corrupt era called mappo. As mappo continues, chaos will increase until the center can no longer hold. Then the world will end. Hundreds of temples in Japan are known to keep mysterious "hidden buddhas" secreted away except on rare designated viewing days. These statues are not hidden because they are powerful - their power lies in their being hidden. Are they being protected, or are they protecting the world? In this novel, one Buddhist priest struggles with the dictates of his inherited orthodoxy, while another rebels. An American graduate student begins to suspect the mysterious purpose of the hidden buddhas, just as he falls in love with a beautiful Japanese artist who is haunted by an aborted child. The weaving of karma that brings these two together results in a tech-savvy half-Western, half-Japanese child who text-messages her way through the profane world to enlightenment. Tracing the lives of its characters through the late twentieth century to the present, from Paris to Kyoto to California, Hidden Buddhas turns a cosmopolitan eye on discipline and decadence in religion, fashion, politics, and modern life.

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400

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Stone Bridge Press

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1933330856

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9781933330853

Book's by Liza Crihfield Dalby

Geisha

Geisha

East Wind Melts the Ice

East Wind Melts the Ice

Geisha

Geisha

East Wind Melts the Ice

East Wind Melts the Ice

Ko-Uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World

Ko-Uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World

Little Songs Of The Geisha

Little Songs Of The Geisha

Geisha

Geisha

Hidden Buddhas

Hidden Buddhas

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