Pumpkin's big moment is when she betrays Sayuri by bringing the Chairman instead of Nobu to "accidentally" see her have sex with the Minister. Sayuri, as Sayuri is prone to do, feels betrayed without ever once thinking about how Pumpkin feels.
Pumpkin failed as a Geisha and became a Prostitute during the war as a way to survive, and was also eventually forced to leave the Nitta Okiya.
In particular, Sayuri's blue-grey eyes are said to reveal the abundant amount of water in her personality. In contrast with the deceptive world of the Geisha, her eyes represent her truthful nature.
Sayuri's beloved older sister. Since Satsu is not as pretty or as clever as Sayuri, Mr. Tanaka sells her to a brothel instead of an okiya. Satsu despises life as a prostitute, so she runs away to her home village where she reunites with her boyfriend.
The Chairman falls in love with Sayuri at that moment because he sees an honest openness in her eyes that is different from the lies and deceit in the rest of the world.
To be fair, Pumpkin gets revenge on Sayuri because "It must be hard for you to understand, Sayuri, when life doesn't work out perfectly!" (34.6). But life has hardly been perfect for Sayuri either. It seems that no geisha ever thinks about what others go through.
Sayuri loses her virginity to Dr. Crab, and we talk about the creepy thing he does with her blood in his "Character" page. But once again, for good measure: he keeps it. He soaks it up in a rag, and puts it in a little jar.
Near the novel's conclusion, we once again get a glimpse of Sayuri's unreliability as a narrator. Sayuri implies that she has given birth to the Chairman's son, though she frames this admission as a rumor, for fear of damaging her son's reputation.
A man in love with Sayuri, Nobu spends much of the novel trying to get Sayuri to become his personal geisha.
How old is the chairman? / What is the age gap between the chairman and Chiyo “Sayuri”? The chairman met Sayuri when he was 45 years old and she was 9. The age gap is 36 years.
After seven pheras are done Kanha and Sayuri sit where he makes her wear the Mangalsutra and fills her hairline with sindoor. The couple is married and Pandit Ji asks them to seek blessings from elders for a successful married life.
Memoirs of a Geisha,” labeled as “a movie about Japanese played by Chinese, written by whites,” was first delayed, then forced to be censored for a sex scene, delayed once again, and now banned.
A key moment to understanding Sayuri's feelings is when she mistakes the Chairman for Mr. Tanaka, the man who sold her as a geisha. Mr. Tanaka got Sayuri into the business of being a geisha, and she hopes the Chairman will provide her with a way out.
Jealous of any geisha who might be prettier than her, Hatsumomo fears that Sayuri will replace her as the most popular geisha in Kyoto. As a result, Hatsumomo tries to ruin Sayuri's career by spreading malicious rumors about her.
Mameha says that she thinks Chiyo's eyes will make her one of the most successful geisha in Gion. Mother responds that the Depression has hurt the okiya, so she would be taking a large risk investing more money in Chiyo by letting her become a geisha.
Things will never be the same. Sayuri's first plane trip occurs when she goes to a party on an island with Nobu, the Chairman, and a greasy old Minister. Here, Sayuri sleeps with the Minister to stop Nobu from being interested in her.
After taking Sayuri's virginity, which causes her to bleed, Dr. Crab saves a small amount of her blood in a little vial. Ick. And, to make it even worse, he doesn't even spell her name right on the vial.
Sayuri's Early Life. The renowned geisha Sayuri started life as Chiyo Sakamoto, the daughter of a poor, elderly fisherman and his sickly wife. She also has an older sister named Satsu; the family lives in what Chiyo calls her "tipsy house", since it leans.
How much did the Baron bid for Sayuri? Crab and the Baron. Dr. Crab wins, if you can call it that, with a record-breaking bid of 11,500 yen, "Much more than, say, a laborer might have earned in a year" (24.8).
Nobu is offended when Sayuri takes the General as her danna, but he forgives her because she doesn't have a choice. However, she seduces the Minister to drive Nobu away, and he can't forgive that.
Sayuri peacefully retires from geisha work when the Chairman becomes her danna. Sayuri relocates to New York City and opens her own small tea house for entertaining Japanese men on business in the United States. The Chairman remains her danna until his death.
The Snow Dance is symbolic to Sayuri's trials of becoming a geisha & her life as a whole up to this point. It's cultural and traditional Japanese theatre. The wailing and flailing represents her descent into insanity after waiting for her lover that she knows will never return.
Hatsumomo is jealous of Chiyo, who also has natural beauty and possesses rare bluish-gray eyes, like the color of rain. So Hatsumomo believes that when Chiyo comes of age, she will be a threat to her own Geisha status, since it would put Nitta in a great position to throw Hatsumomo out.
Today there are only about 1,000 geisha in Japan. They can be found in several major cities including Tokyo, and Kanazawa but most of them work in Kyoto. They are often attending gatherings at tea houses and ryoutei —a kind of luxurious Japanese restaurant.