Geisha in Rivalry

Geisha in Rivalry
AuthorNagai Kafu
Original title腕くらべ
Set inJapan, early 20th century
Published
  • 1916-17 (serialised in Bunmei magazine)
  • 1918 (partly censored public edition)
  • 1956 (restored full version in Complete Works)
Published in English
  • 1963 (Meissner & Friedrich translation from 1918 version)
  • 2007 (Snyder translation from 1956 version)

Geisha in Rivalry (腕くらべ, Ude kurabe; 1916-1917), also translated under the title of Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, is a Japanese novel written by Nagai Kafu about the Tokyo hanamachi (geisha district) of Shimbashi in the early 20th century. First published in the Japanese language in 1918, the book was first translated into English in 1963.

Rivalry captures the lives of Shimbashi geisha at a historically popular time for the geisha movement. The author, Nagai Kafu, worked as an editor of literary magazines before deciding to write novels and investigate Tokyo's geisha world.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.