Mameha's remark about Chiyo's eyes implies that Mameha wants to be Chiyo's older sister because she thinks Chiyo will make a lot of money. After all, the more Chiyo makes, the more her older sister will earn.
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.
Mameha says that she knew Mother would adopt Sayuri, because yesterday the bidding ended with Dr. Crab agreeing to pay 11,500 yen for her mizuage – the highest amount ever paid for a mizuage in Gion.
The Baron was the highest bidder but because of his actions towards her proteige? she let Dr. Crab win the war making Sayuri a full geisha, paying off the debts she owes Mrs. Nitta and because of this, she adopts her and she becomes heir to the Nitta Okiya, this move angers both Hatsumomo and Pumpkin seeing that Mrs.
An honorable and loyal man, the Chairman at first sacrifices a relationship with Sayuri in order to let his friend and business partner Nobu pursue a relationship with her. But when the Chairman realizes that Sayuri feels as much love for him as he does for her, his love for Sayuri outstrips his loyalty to Nobu.
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 spending some hard years as a prostitute during World War Two, Pumpkin tries to sabotage Sayuri's relationship with the Chairman in order to get back at Sayuri for succeeding where she herself failed.
But when Nobu rejects Sayuri, the Chairman becomes her danna (a man who pays a geisha to be his long-term mistress). He does not marry her (he already has a family), but he pays all of her expenses and allows her to move to New York to open her teahouse and rear their son.
The Chairman's dealings with Chiyo (and later, Sayuri) are marked with generosity and magnanimity. It's clear that he returns Sayuri's affection, but he refuses to pursue the relationship because doing so would put him in competition with his boss and friend, Nobu, to whom he owes a great debt.
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.
Some geisha would sleep with their customers, whereas others would not, leading to distinctions such as kuruwa geisha – a geisha who slept with customers as well as entertaining them through performing arts – yujō ("prostitute") and jorō ("whore") geisha, whose only entertainment for male customers was sex, and machi ...
But today, it is very unusual for a geisha to have a personal relationship with a danna, and should they ever have one (which is rare because most of them love to be autonomous now), it's mainly because of the patron's desire to help prolong the geisha arts and traditions — nothing more.
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.
Ser father was old and her mother terminally ill; thus the parents were persuaded to sell their daughters for a more secured life. Chiyo and sister Satsu were promptly sent to Gion(geisha district) right away.
Because dad can't raise two girls alone, he sells them to a local businessman, Mr. Tanaka. Chiyo thinks she is being adopted, but she ends up with a family she never expected—a family of geisha in Kyoto, a long way from Yoroido.
The novel's antagonist, Hatsumomo is the most beautiful and the cruelest geisha in the book. Though she hides her cruel nature from the men she entertains, Hatsumomo insults or sabotages anyone she dislikes.
Sayuri travels with Nobu, the Chairman, Mameha, Pumpkin, and the American soldiers to the Amami Islands. The Colonel propositions Sayuri, but she rejects him. Nobu confronts her after seeing this and confesses his desire to become her danna.
A man in love with Sayuri, Nobu spends much of the novel trying to get Sayuri to become his personal geisha.
The ugly, dim-witted Deputy Minister who uses his influence to reverse the American government's decision to strip the Chairman and Nobu's company of its assets. Since Nobu finds Sato detestable, Sayuri sleeps with him in order to infuriate Nobu, hoping that Nobu will lose interest in her as a result.
Meanwhile, Kanha marries Sayuri in order to fulfill the promise he made to Chiru.
Thus the Chairman tries to negotiate between attending to the desires of others while still making himself happy. With great effort, Sayuri admits that she betrayed Nobu because of her feelings for the Chairman.
Sayuri's eyes symbolically relate to the old saying that “eyes are the windows to the soul.” Sayuri's translucent blue-grey eyes lead many characters to believe that she has a lot of water in her personality.
Woh Toh Hai Albelaa: Finally! Sayuri agrees to marry Kanha to keep Chiru's last wish.
The next day Hatsumomo leaves the okiya in a plain cotton dress with her hair completely down. Mother has kicked her out of the okiya because Hatsumomo disgraced herself and the okiya by attacking Shojiro.
Memoirs of a Geisha is narrated by a fictional character, Chiyo Sakamoto, who was taken from her Japanese fishing village at the age of nine. After being trained as a geisha, Chiyo Sakamoto is given the name Nitta Sayuri.