(日本名伎川上贞奴) MADAME SADAYAKKO

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AcknowledgmentsNote on PronunciationPrologue-In Search of SadayakkoPart I geisha  CHAPTER l-The Geisha and the Farm Boy: 1871-1885  CHAPTER 2-The Prime Minister's Favorite: 1885-1888  CHAPTER 3-The Liberty Kid: 1888-1896Part II Actress  CHAPTER 4-Setting Sail: 1896-1899  CHAPTER 5-"And How This Geisha Dances!": Lost in America, 1899-1900  CHAPTER 6-"The Witchery of Salome's Art":Boston to London, 1900  CHAPTER 7-"An Opium Hallucination of the Far East":Paris Swoons, 1900-1901  CHAPTER 8-The Real Madame Butterfly: Europe, 1901-1903  CHAPTER 9-Secrets of a Woman's Heart:Performing in Japan, 1903-1911         Part III Mistress  CHAPTER 10-Wild Chrysanthemum: 1911-1917  CHAPTER 11-In the Shadow of the Peach Tree: 1917-1946EpilogueNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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  A critically acclaimed author tells the enthralling true story of the real Madame Butterfly, a woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the West. 

 At twenty-nine, she captivated the world’s stage. From San Francisco to New York, Paris, and Berlin, audiences thrilled to her mesmeric acting and exquisite dancing. She performed for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London. Picasso painted her. Gide, Debussy, Degas, and Rodin were among her devoted fans. She was Sadayakko, Japan’s most notorious geisha—and its first international superstar. 

 In Italy, Puccini was working on Madame Butterfly. He had the plot for his opera, but he had yet to see a real live flesh-and-blood Japanese woman—until Sadayakko arrived with her troupe of traveling actors. 

 Madame Sadayakko is the true story of this extraordinary woman—muse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of the geisha and reveal a missing piece of history from the turn of the last century, when Japanese women wore bustles and learned the waltz and women in the West wore Sadayakko kimonos.

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