Kikuko (name given to Dalby as a teenager living in Japan), Ichigiku (市菊)[1]: 105 (name given when informally working as a geisha in the 1970s)
Citizenship
United States
Education
Stanford University (PhD)
Occupation(s)
Anthropologist, geisha
Known for
anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture
Website
www.lizadalby.com
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society. Since that time, she has written five books. Her first book, Geisha, was based on her early research. The next book, Kimono: Fashioning Culture is about traditional Japanese clothing and the history of the kimono. This was followed with a fictional account of the Heian era noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, titled The Tale of Murasaki. In 2007 she wrote a memoir, East Wind Melts the Ice, which was followed two years later by a second work of fiction, Hidden Buddhas.
Dalby is considered an expert in the study of the Japanese geisha community, and acted as consultant to novelist Arthur Golden and filmmaker Rob Marshall for the novel Memoirs of a Geisha and the film of the same name.
^Dalby, Liza (1998). Geisha (2nd ed.). California: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20495-6.
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied...
in Japan. Little, Brown Book Group. pp. 380–. ISBN 978-1-4055-1969-4. LizaDalby (2009-02-01). East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons. University...
of an independent geisha; according to the research of anthropologist LizaDalby, though this process was generally not pleasant, for many, it was perceived...
the maiko belongs to. For formal occasions, maiko wear a gold brocade obi. Mizuage Maiko LizaDalby (2000). Geisha. Vintage. ISBN 978-0099428992. v t e...
Asian Art. "Kofun Period (ca. 300–710)". www.metmuseum.org. MET Museum. Dalby, Liza (1993). Kimono: Fashioning Culture (1st ed.). Seattle: University of...
fictionalized account of Murasaki's life, The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel, LizaDalby has Murasaki involved in a romance during her travels with her father...
American Geisha (CBS), which was based on the autobiographical book by LizaDalby. Other TV roles include recurring on Mad TV, starring in Nightingale,...
Bridge from IBC. They are now an independent press. Jonathan Clements LizaDalby Leza Lowitz Naoki Inose Helen McCarthy Donald Richie Hiroaki Sato Frederick...
Literature. Goodwill Trading Co., Inc. 2010. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-971-574-160-6. LizaDalby (1 February 2009). East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons...
into English, the book received positive reviews from anthropologist LizaDalby and author Arthur Golden, as well as several other book reviewers. Despite...
Patterson The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Tale of Murasaki by LizaDalby The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce (under the pseudonym Andrew...
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Wafuku. 16 February 2012. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Dalby, Liza (2000). Geisha (3rd ed.). London: Vintage Random House. pp. 277, 333...
much the same year after year.: 77–78 "2021 Miyako Odori in Kyoto". Dalby, Liza (1998). Geisha (2nd ed.). California: University of California Press...
preserve the personal privacy of these "living" embodiments of Buddhism. LizaDalby's novel Hidden Buddhas is based on the concept of hibutsu. Suzuki, Michitaka...
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