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.