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...Books: Memoirs of a Geisha...
...Books: Memoirs of a Geisha...
...Books: Memoirs of a Geisha...
...That's one version of the tale of Harris and Okichi. Here's another: Okichi was a 17-year-old geisha Harris chose after seeing her leave a bathhouse. There are still other versions?Xand it's unclear if the pair were ever actually intimate?Xbut they all have one feature in common: the setting is Shimoda, the sleepy burg at the southeast tip of the Izu Peninsula that housed the first U.S. consulate in Japan and is indelibly associated with the "opening" of the Land of the Rising...
...specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...