Lee Langley

Living dolls

Born in Japan, growing up in America in the Sixties, Yoko Kawaguchi was perplexed by the persistence of what she felt to be an anachronistic image of Japanese culture: the geisha.

  • Butterfly's Sisters

    Yoko Kawaguchi

    Yale, pp. 339

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