Mineko Iwasaki

About The Author

Born in 1949, Mineko Iwasaki was Japan’s star geisha until she retired at the age of twenty-nine. She now lives in a Kyoto suburb, with her family.

Books by Mineko Iwasaki

Geisha of Gion

The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha

'A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

'[An] eloquent and innovative memoir' The Times

The extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japan's foremost geisha.

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