Chapter 2

In the next chapter we meet Mr. Tanaka who owns "Japans Coastal Seafood Company," in Chiyo's fishing village of Yoroido. When Chiyo falls flat on her face and becomes unconcious, Mr. Tanaka helps Chiyo with her wounds and then takes her back home. After a brief disccusion with her father, Mr. Tanaka invites Chiyo and her sister Satsu to his house to have a sleepover with his daughter. Things take an interesting turn though when they are taken to a cruel and mean examiner who after malesting ther girls leaves the girls tramatised who are after taken to Mr. Tanaka's house where they meet Mrs. Tanaka and the very sociable daughter, Kuniko, who becomes very quick friends with Chiyo during the sleepover.

Memoirs of a Geisha Ch.1

In the first chapter of "Memoirs of a Geisha," we meet a a young, 9 year old girl named Chiyo Sakamoto, who lives in a poor town on the coast of Japan. She lives with her fisherman father, dying mother and her older sister. In this chapter also, Dr. Miura visits Chiyo's mother to check-up on her illness, which we find out is bone cancer. Dr. Miura tells Chiyo's father that she is in her final stages and to start preparing fro a funeral.