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Geisha in Rivalry
Author
Nagai Kafu
Original title
腕くらべ
Set in
Japan, early 20th century
Published
1916-17 (serialised in Bunmei magazine)
1918 (partly censored public edition)
1956 (restored full version in Complete Works)
Published in English
1963 (Meissner & Friedrich translation from 1918 version)
2007 (Snyder translation from 1956 version)
Geisha in Rivalry (腕くらべ, Ude kurabe, 1916-1917), also translated under the title of Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, is a novel written by Nagai Kafu about the Tokyo hanamachi (geisha district) of Shimbashi in the early 20th century. First published in Japanese in 1918, the book was first translated into English in 1963.
Rivalry aims to capture the lives of Shimbashi geisha at a historically popular time for geisha. The author, Nagai Kafu, worked as an editor of literary magazines before deciding to write novels and investigate Tokyo's geisha world.[1]
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