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Geisha: The Life, The Voices, The Art new-arrivals-200222 and “an indispensable aid forHere, brought vividly to life, is an icon of Japanese culture and customthe geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman. A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there are a thousand at most. Happily, Jodi Cobb is able to show usbefore they vanishboth the ceremonial world of the geisha in Tokyo and Kyoto and their private world as few outsiders have ever seen it. Many of the older women we meet here were forced into