High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Autobiography of a Geisha (??,?????? , Geisha, kuto no hanshogai?, literally Geisha, Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle), is a book by Sayo Masuda (??? • ??, Masuda Sayo?, kanji ?? ??). It was first published in Japan in 1957, and the English translation by G. G. Rowley was published in 2003. Masuda wrote her autobiography between the years of 1956 and 1957 in response to a magazine ad for a non-fiction women's writing competition. She had never learned to read more than hiragana, and wrote her entire book in it. Her editors carefully worked to convert her work into the standard kanji while preserving the feeling of her original writing. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не...