One day, while running errands for Hatsumomo, Chiyo meets a kind businessman: the Chairman. She is removed from school and doomed to be a maid in the okiya forever. Chiyo attempts to escape, but injures herself in the process. She tells Chiyo where her sister has been taken-to a whorehouse across town. Jealous Hatsumomo is desperate to get Chiyo out of the okiya.
Here's the geisha school curriculum: dancing, Japanese guitar playing, tea service. When she isn't cleaning toilets or being bossed around, she attends geisha school with her young friend, Pumpkin. Little Chiyo starts as an indentured servant, doing housework and following the orders of the house geisha, Hatsumomo. What's her business? None of your business.Īctually, it's geisha, and since we're reading the Memoirs of a Geisha, we get to hear all about it. The okiya is run by Mother, a stern, often cruel, businesswoman.
Chiyo thinks she is being adopted, but she ends up with a family she never expected-a family of geisha in Kyoto, a long way from Yoroido.Ĭhiyo lives in an okiya, which is a fancy word for geisha boarding house.
Because dad can't raise two girls alone, he sells them to a local businessman, Mr. A young girl with beautiful eyes named Chiyo lives in Yoroido, a raggedy little fishing village, in a raggedy little house with her raggedy little family-mom, dying of bone cancer sister, who is older but not attractive and dad, who is basically useless.
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