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Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.

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And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Mineko Iwasaki

Mineko Iwasaki

Born: November 2, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Mineko Iwasaki also known as Mineko Iwasaki, born Masako Tanaka, is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geiko. Iwasaki was the most famous geiko in Japan until her sudden publicized retirement at the age of 29.
Known for:
  1. Geisha: A Life (2002)
  2. Geisha of Gion (2002)
  3. Ma vie de geisha (2003)
  4. Die wahre Geschichte der Geisha (2002)
  5. Vida De Una Geisha (2005)

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