 Upon its translation into English, the book received positive reviews from Liza Dalby and Arthur Golden as well as several book reviewers.Despite academic reviews, the book has been strangely ignored in many publications about geisha.In her autobiography "Geisha, a Life" (also known as "Geisha of Gion"), published in 2002, Mineko Iwasaki claims to be the first geisha to come forward to tell her story.