Welcome to Yoroi town!

“… I wasn’t born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha. I wasn’t even born in Kyoto. I’m a fisherman’s daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan…”

“… In our little fishing village of Yoroido, I lived in what I called a “tipsy house”. It stood near a cliff where the wind off the ocean was always blowing…”

“…Yoroido was a tiny town, just at the opening of an inlet… Yoroido had only one road, leading right to the front door of Japan Coastal Seafood Company; it was lined with a number of houses whose front rooms were used for shops…”

Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Endlessly fascinating… Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha – summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan’s dramatic history, and opening a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment and degradation.