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Who were Geisha in Japanese culture and what were their significance during pre WW2 Japan?
Reading Nobel Prize winning book Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. So needed little context.
I know what they are supposed to be basically, but what exactly were their roles during that period when book was written....