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基本信息
·出版社：Gotham Books; Reprint edition
·页码：336 页码
·出版日：2004年
·ISBN：9781592400508
·条码：9781592400508
·装帧：平装
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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 onMadame 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 Sadayakkois 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.
作者简介
Lesley Downer lived in Japan for more than ten years and speaks fluent Japanese. She has written many books about Japan and its culture, presented television programmes on the subject for both Channel 4 and the BBC and she contributes a weekly column to The Scotsman called 'Postcard from Japan'.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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From Publishers Weekly
The first Japanese actress of modern times, Sadayakko (1871-1946) shared the stage with Isadora Duncan and influenced Puccini's writing of Madame Butterfly. Unfortunately, this biography, a follow-up to Downer's Women of the Pleasure Quarters, never takes wing despite the author's best efforts to track down relatives who still remember the actress, sold by her family to become a geisha at age five. Pieced together from newspaper clippings and writings by contemporaries, the book fails to capture the excitement of Sadayakko's success. Like many geisha, who were considered social outcasts, Sadayakko married into the theater at age 19 by choosing a husband, Otojiro, from among the "riverbed beggars," as actors were then known. She joined him on stage during his troupe's first American tour, but soon she became a bigger star than he. Otojiro founded New Wave drama, or shimpa, which was much less stylized than traditional kabuki, yet Downer makes a strong case that Sadayakko was every bit as important as Otojiro to the development of Japanese theater. But Sadayakko, who was eager to support her husband, left no record to indicate the exact nature of her role, if any, in the development of his plays. After Otojiro's death, Sadayakko continued to act and to train other young actresses. Although Sadayakko was a captivating character, Downer doesn't come up with enough facts to present an equally captivating story.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The author of The Brothers: The World of Japan's Richest Family here examines the superstar of the geisha sisterhood, who captivated the West (Picasso sketched her) and eventually married a political renegade.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
FromBooklist
Born in 1871 and an international star before she turned 30, Sadayakko has the distinction of being the first geisha introduced to the Western world. Given the name Sada at birth, she was rechristened Ko-yakko when she went to the Hamada to train to become a geisha. Enchanting and charming, she captured so much attention that Japan's first prime minister, Hirobumi Ito, bid on and won the right to hermizuage(virginity). Geishas were the celebrities of their day, so when Sadayakko decided to marry charismatic actor Otojiro Kawakami, it caused quite a stir in Japan. Ambitious yet fickle, Otojiro bought a theater--with Sadayakko's money--for his troupe to perform in. The theater failed, and fleeing debt collectors, Otojiro and Sadayakko set sail for the U.S. with the theater troupe in tow. There, they began to put on performances, though Sadayakko's star far outshone her husband's, for the West was completely entranced with the idea of the exotic geisha. Downer's lively, fluid biography brings Sadayakko to Western attention once more.Kristine Huntley
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Publishers Weekly Daily
"Downer offers a kind of real-life Memoirs of a Geisha."
Review
“[Madame Sadayakko] is a comprehensive portrait of a woman whose fame was shaped in equal parts by her will and her time.” (New York Times Book Review) “Downer offers a kind of real-life Memoirs of a Geisha.” (Publishers Weekly Daily) “Downer . . . does an admirable job of making this exciting woman and her times come to life.” (Pat MacEnulty,The Sun-Sentinel)
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