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Japan's drama queen Selina Hastings enjoys a Life of the geisha who was the inspiration for Madame Butterfly
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West
by Lesley Downer
Review, pounds 20, 336 pp
pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
SADAYAKKO, BORN into a prosperous samurai family in 1871, was
taken into a geisha house after a fall in fortune caused by the death
of her father when she was only seven. Biddable and beautiful, the
highly intelligent young girl was recognised as a valuable property;
her deflowering, at the age of 15, was reserved for none other than
the Prime Minister, Count Ito.
Yakko, as she became known, quickly rose to the top of the geisha
star system - "her face was as ...
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