Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
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by Jennifer Ball
Momoware
Hair as a medium for communication - Page 2 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com
Yuiwata
Shimada
No particular age...
Marumage
Shitajimage
Hair as a medium for communication - Page 10 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com
Tekomai
original
rice
paper
I have had this doll since I was 6 (1964). It made a lasting impression upon me. It also suggests a coherence in my life that I
still have some of the original rice paper even though the doll is
at least 41 years old.
Hair as a medium for communication - Page 15 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com
References[edit]
1 Seigle, Cecilia Segawa (1993). Yoshiwara: the glittering world of the Japanese courtesan.
[Honolulu]: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1488-6.page 179.
2 Melissa Hope Ditmore (2006). Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work. Westport, Conn:
Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32969-9., page 184 [1]
3 Japan encyclopedia. Belknap Pr of Harvard U. 2005. ISBN 0-674-01753-6.page 234
4 Reynolds, Wayne; Gallagher, John (2003). Geisha : A Unique World of Tradition, Elegance and
Art. PRC Publishing. ISBN 1-85648-697-4. page 135
5 Liza Crihfield Dalby. Geisha. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
6 Lesley Downer. Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World. (London: Headline Book
Publishing, 2000) pages 256-266.
7 Mineko Iwasaki. Geisha, A Life. (New York: Washington Square Press, 2002) page 206-210.
I preferred my
geisha with a
sword, which I
bought in San
Francisco in
1970, when I
was 12 and in
seventh grade.