In the book, Nobu's face is so terribly scarred and disfigured that Sayuri thinks it cruel to try and describe him, and he's missing an arm.While most of the characters treat it as normal if a bit embarrassing, Mameha has graves for her aborted children which she visits regularly. Abortion Fallout Drama: Sayuri's mentor Mameha aborts all of the children she conceived by her client, the Baron.Though some controversial details were not inaccurate, the fact that the novel was supposed to be based on her life thus made Iwasaki feel that she and others were watered down to being little more than prostitutes when her focus was always on art. She also said that either Golden downright lied about the geishas and their lives for creative purposes, or showed experiences that were beneficial to Iwasaki and Co. She herself netted criticism (and even death threats) for opening up in such a way, and eventually ended up publishing her actual memoirs, Geisha of Gion. One of Golden's primary sources, former Geisha Mineko Iwasaki, specifically asked to be kept anonymous, and Golden went and thanked her in the author's note anyway. As noted in the 'translator's note' prologue, geisha are expected to be discreet, regarding what they know and who they know it about, and about their own trade in general. Note Arthur Golden caught a good deal of flak for naming his sources. The plot is set in Kyoto, mainly in the decades around the Second World War. Meanwhile, Sayuri becomes a pawn in an intrigue between two of the most successful geisha in the district. One day, she meets a man who becomes her main motivation to pursue a career as a geisha, although she soon starts to realize that he is unobtainable. Memoirs of a Geisha is an 1997 novel by Arthur Golden - later adapted into a 2005 film - about the life of a famous geisha, Sayuri (formerly Chiyo), who was sold to a geisha house by her father at a young age to be trained in the profession.
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