Of Smoke And Mirrors
Description
"Remember, Soeun, geisha are not courtesans, and we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist, and to be a geisha, is to be judged as a moving work of art."
Foreword
memoirs of a geisha! au (set in Japan - Gion, Miyako and Osaka in 1929)
pairing: jaerim / soeun
rating: pg-15 (mention of mizuage - a folk legend in which a danna, a wealthy patron, bidded and paid huge sums of money for the coming of age ceremony for a maiko (geisha apprentice) to transit into a full-fledged geisha, after which the danna would have the right of taking the young maiko's ity)
in which soeun is a geisha driven by a special purpose and jaerim is the peasant boy who has sworn to buy her mizuage - though he already has her heart.
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