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Word: gelsha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horrible to an unusual degree. But beside being selected from a very special field of the drama of Japan, they give a very unfair picture of oriental life. In each of the five plays the prime minister is dissolute, carrying on an illicit and brutal love affair with a Gelsha girl: In no one of them does the scene get far away from the parlor of a Gelsha house. Mr. Duran, with a literary cruelty seldom seen before, has represented as typical of the "Plays of Old Japan" a special type of drama, which is no more representative of Japanese...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF REVIEWS | 1/13/1922 | See Source »

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