She goes up on the roof believing that she can escape that way but ends up falling and breaking her arm. Mother punishes Hatsumomo and forbids her from seeing her lover again, which only makes Hatsumomo hate Chyo more.ĭespite Auntie and Pumpkin’s warnings, Chyo tries to run so she could meet with her sister. Because of this, Chyo tells Mother that Hatsumomo has a boyfriend, a peasant named Koichi, fact that could endanger Hatsumomo’s career and the okyia’s revenue. When Chyo arrives at the okyia, Hatsumomo reveals that Chyo went to see her sister to Mother. Chyo finds her sister in the pleasure district and they set the date when they would run away, Satsu refusing to run away that night because they had no money. ![]() One day, Chyo is sent to go and give Hatsumomo an instrument at a tea house and she uses the opportunity to go and find Satsu. Because she wants to torment Chyo, Hatsumomo lets her know that her sister searched her but refused to tell her where she is and where she works. Auntie, knowing Hatsumomo’s character, warns Chyo not to trust her.Ĭhyo’s sister tries to get in touch with her but Hatsumomo doesn’t let her. Hatsumomo tries to get rid of Chyo by making her life miserable, withholding information about her sister’s whereabouts and blaming the destruction of Mameha’s kimono, a rival of Hatsumomo’s, on Chyo. The house is also inhabited by Granny, an old geisha, Mother, a person who only cares about money, Auntie, a failed geisha, and Pumpkin, another girl the same age as Chyo brought to become a geisha.Ĭhyo starts as a servant, doing chores and whatever she is put up to, but after a while, she is sent to be trained as a geisha together with Pumpkin. In the house lives only another geisha named Hatsumomo who immediately dislikes Chyo because she sees her as a potential threat. There, Chyo is taken to a geisha house in the Gion district and is separated from her sister. Instead of adopting them, they are taken to the train station where a man awaits for them and the two girls are taken to Kyoto. ![]() Tanaka wants to adopt her and her sister grows inside of her.Ī few days pass until one day, Mr. Chyo meets Tanaka’s daughter who is the same age as she is and the idea that Mr. Tanaka’s office where the two girls meet old women that Chyo calls Ms. The next day, they are first taken to Mr. Tanaka invites Chyo and her sister to come to his house the next day and they agree. Tanaka again as she spies on her sister making out with one of the village boys. Chyo then started to look up to Mr., Tanaka because she saw him as being more mannered than the others. He took care of her and recognized her as being Sakamoto’s daughter. When her father sent Chyo into the village to bring incense for the altar, she felt down and was rescued by Tanaka Ichiro, the owner of the Japan Costal Seafood Company. Chyo overheard her father and the doctor talk about her mother and she started fearing what would happen if her mother were to die. Despite that the village doctor, Miura, tried to help her, it seemed that there was no more hope for her. When Chyo was seven, her mother became ill. The older daughter resembled her father both in manner and physical appearance while Chyo was more like her mother. Her father’s name was Sakamoto Minoru and he was married before but his wife and also his two children, a boy and a girl, died.Īfter that Sakamoto Minoru married again and together with his new wife had two daughters, Chyo and Satsu. ![]() ![]() She grew up as being the youngest one and often being compared to her mother with whom she shared the same unusual eye color, a light grey, not common among Japanese people. She was a young girl, belonging to a fisherman, who grew up in a fishing village called Yoroido. The book opens by presenting the geisha’s life and family before coming to Gion. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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