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A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour (Famous Japanese Print Series)
by Alfred H. Marks, Harue M. Summersgill, Amy Reigle Newland, Monika Hinkel


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Researching Resources Used

This list is constantly being updated with new books and other media that I have read, and that I have found useful for the research of ImmortalGeisha.com

Books

 
 

Aihara, Kyoko

"Geisha - A Living Tradition"
- Carlton Books Limited 2000

 
 

Anonymous

"Geisha Secrets - A Pillowbook for Lovers"
- Caroll & Graft Publishers, Inc 2000

 
 

Brazell, Karen (trans)

"The Confessions of Lady Nijo"
- Anchor Books 1973

 
 

Cawthorne, Nigel

"The Art of Japanese Prints"
- Laurel Glen Publishing 1997

 
 

Cobb, Jodi

"Geisha - The Life, The Voices, The Art"
- Alfred A Knopf, Inc 1995

 
 

Dalby, Liza

"Geisha" - Twenty-four years after
- University of California Press 1998

 
 

Dalby, Liza

"Kimono - Fashioning Culture"
- Yale University Press 1993

 
 

Dalby, Liza

"Little Songs of the Geisha - Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta"
- Tuttle Publishing - 2000

 
 

de Becker, JE

"The Nightless City or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku"
- Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. - 1971

 
 

Downer, Lesley

"The Women of the Pleasure Quarters - The Secret History of the Geisha"
- Broadway Books

 
 

Fahr-Becker, Gabriele

"Japanese Prints"
- Taschen 1999

 
 

Golden, Arthur

"Memoirs of a Geisha"
- Vintage 1998

 
 

Ihara Saikaku

"The Life of an Amorous Woman"
- New Directions Book - 1963

 
 

Kakuzo Okakura

"The Book of Tea"
- Dover Publications, Inc - 1964

 
 

Kasyo Matida

"Odori (Japanese Dance) - Tourist Library Vol 22"
- Japan Travel Bureau 1938

 
 

Kawakatsu, Ken-ichi

"Kimono - Tourist Library Vol 3"
- Japan Travel Bureau 1956

 
 

Keene, Donald

"Living Japan The Land, The People and their Changing World"
- Doubleday & Company, Inc - Date unknown - possibly 1950's

 
 

Leigh, Michelle D

"The Japanese Way of Beauty"
- Thorsons 1994

 
 

Longstreet, Stephen
& Ethel

"Yoshiwara - The Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo"
- Yenbooks 1988 (Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.)

 
 

Louis, Lisa

"Butterflies of the Night - Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve"
- Tengu Books - 1992

 
 

Perkins, PD

"Geisha of Pontocho"
- Tokyo News Service, Ltd. 1954

 
 

PRC Publishing

"Ukiyo-e - The Art of the Japanese Woodblock Prints"
- Knickerbocker Press

 
 

Rudofsky, Bernard

"The Kimono Mind"
- Doubleday & Company, Inc - 1965

 
 

Scott, A C

"The Flower and Willow World"
- Windmill Press Ltd. 1959

 
 

Scott, AC

"The Kabuki Theatre of Japan"
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd - 1955

 
 

Segawa Seigle, Cecilia

"Yoshiwara, The glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan"
- University of Hawaii Press - 1993

 
 

Shaver, Ruth M

"Kabuki Costume - Illus by Soma Akira & Ota Gako"
- Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. - 1990

 
 

Shikibu, Murasaki

"The Tale of Genji" (trans by Edward G Seidensticker)
- Charles E Tuttle, Company Inc 1978

 
 

Times Edition

"Japan - Islands of the Floating World"
- Times Edition 1998

 
 

Underwood, Eleanor

"The Life of a Geisha"
- Smithmark Publishers 1999

 
 

Whitford, Cecilia

"Japanese Prints"
- Gallery Books - 1983

 

Videos

 
 

A&E

"The Secret Life of Geisha"
- A&E Television Networks 1999

 
 

Optomen Television

"Geisha"
- Directed by Joanne Bailey - Optomen Television 1999

 

Articles

 
 

Cobb, Jodi

"Geisha"
- National Geographic Vol 188 No.4 October 1995