QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Memoirs of A Geisha ABC’s

By Vivian Hare

Summary

A girl named Chiyo who grew up in a fishing village is sold to an Okiya and a bustling city, or a geisha house. She causes trouble the few days she stayed there,and it is decided that she will stay as a servant forever instead of becoming a geisha. Another geisha named Hatsumomo, continually brings down all of her dreams until another famous geisha, named Mameha, decides to take her as a younger sister, and all the while, Chiyo falls in love with a man. In her long conquest to become a geisha, Sayuri has one main goal: to bring down Hatsumomo.

G is for Gion

Gion is the city where Sayuri became a geisha and where most of the most emotional occurances happened in her life.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressorare needed to see this picture.

A is for aspiration

Aspiration: The young geisha, or main character, Sayuri, had many aspirations to become a full blown geisha when she was a little girl.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

C is for Chairman

Chairman: The Chairman was the man Sayuri loved and was the fire in her heart that made her strive to become a geisha.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Y is for Yoroido

Yoroido is the place where the little girl Chiyo was born, as well as the place where she was sold to an okiya, where she would be an entirely different person.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

O Is for Okiya

The okiya is the place where geisha are taught, brought up, and live for most of their lives. In this story, Chiyo grew to a woman and a geisha in an okiya.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressorare needed to see this picture.

H is for Hatsumomo

Hatusmomo was the woman who despised Sayuri, and the woman who tried her hardest to bring her down.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

P is for Pumpkin

Pumpkin was the supposed friend of Sayuri, they were brought up together and helped each other with their own hardships

L is for Love

Love played a big part in Sayuri’s life, it was what made her go forward and become a geisha.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

S is for Sayuri

Sayuri is the name for the little girl that changed into a geisha when she was sold into an okiya.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

T is for Tanaka

The man who sold her into slavery, the man who changed her life when he came to her father that day and stole her and her sister into Gion.

Thanks and Goodbye!

Thank You!