Sayo Masuda - Autobiography of a Geisha (1957) PDF [ENG]

Sayo Masuda - Autobiography of a Geisha (1957) PDF [ENG]







Title: Autobiography of a Geisha

Author: Sayo Masuda

Language: English (trans. by G.G. Rowley)

Genre: autobiography, confession

Format: PDF

Pages: 198

Description: This remarkable autobiography written by 32-year-old Sayo Masuda and first published in 1957 documents her struggle to seek out an ordinary life.



As a six-year-old, Sayo's mother sent her to work as a nursemaid for some wealthy landowners who tied her up if she misbehaved, forced her to sleep on a "hempen sack stuffed with rags thrown into the corner of the storehouse" and only allowed her to eat scraps that they left under the kitchen sink.