Sayuki

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Sayuki with bamboo flute

Sayuki ( Japanese 紗 幸 ; * September 16, 1961 in Melbourne as Fiona Graham ) is an Australian anthropologist and geisha who works in Tokyo .

In December 2007, after a year of preparation and training (which is normal training time for geisha in Tokyo), Sayuki officially debuted as a geisha in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. Sayuki is considered to be the first western geisha in Japanese history. Sayuki had classes in various arts, but her main art is yokobue (Japanese bamboo flute). She currently works as a geisha in the Fukagawa Geisha District of Tokyo.

Academic career

Sayuki has a PhD in social anthropology and an MBA , both from Oxford University . She received her first diplomas in psychology and teaching at Keiō University in Tokyo. She has conducted field research in Japanese companies, Tokyo's nightlife, with traditional Japanese sports teams, and in the world of Japanese anime and popular culture. She originally became a geisha as part of an academic project, but plans to continue doing this job for some time.

Sayuki in Tokyo

further activities

Sayuki has also launched a number of initiatives to make it easier for foreigners in Japan to attend a geisha banquet by booking through their website. She also tries to bring geisha culture closer to people abroad by traveling overseas and holding banquets in other countries. In 2011 she opened a kimono store.

media

Sayuki was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show television show in February 2010. The fashion magazine Marie Claire also reported on her in November 2009.

Works

  • Fiona Graham: Inside the Japanese Company. Routledge Shorton, New York, London 2003. ISBN 0-415-30670-1
  • Fiona Graham: A Japanese Company In Crisis: Ideology, Strategy, And Narrative (Contemporary Japan). Routledge Shorton , New York, London 2005. ISBN 0-415-34685-1
  • Fiona Graham: Playing at Politics: an ethnography of the Oxford Union. Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh 2005. ISBN 1-903765-52-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography
  2. ↑ Edan Corkill: Aussie geisha speaks out. In: The Japan Times Online. June 29, 2008, accessed June 23, 2011 .
  3. ^ David McNeill: Turning Japanese: the first foreign geisha. In: The Independent . January 24, 2008, accessed June 23, 2011 .
  4. ^ Sayuki, "The site sponsored by TMCreation. Retrieved July 11, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Rick Wallace: No place for you, Aussie geisha told. In: The Australian. June 6, 2011, accessed May 24, 2013 .
  6. ^ Julian Ryall, Justin Norrie: Australian academic is a geisha down to a tea. In: The Sidney Morning Herald. June 8, 2008, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Alex Martin: Geisha cuts into kimono market. In: The Japan Times Online. June 3, 2011, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Lisa Ling: Lisa Ling Attends a Geisha Banquet. In: The Oprah Winfrey Show. February 9, 2010, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Abigail Haworth: Meet Japan's First Western Geisha. In: Marie Claire. November 9, 2009, accessed December 2, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sayuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 紗 幸 (Japanese); Graham, Fiona (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian anthropologist and geisha
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia