Itezuru

A girl nicknamed O-Tsuru, named for a habit of standing on one leg to warm the other, is sold by her parents and becomes a geisha apprentice in an okiya. As she carries out tasks for her superiors, she learns about the lives of the women in the house. Eventually, she is chosen for the formal geisha initiation, during which she is given the name Tsurugiku. The story details her transition into the world of geisha and her eventual rise to fame within it. The work was first published in a collected volume in 1992.

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