β Scribed by Lesley Downer
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time.
Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth and grace. How will she survive in a home where no one speaks her language, where she understands nothing and she must submit to a strange barbarian's will?
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