Russo talks of one’s Classical Greek body, but not, new clear contrast involving the authorities in her research keeps apparent parallels into the ancient body of the geisha/Madame Butterfly pictures. Their particular breakdown of your own classical looks because the “transcendent and monumental, signed, fixed, self-consisted of, symmetric, and you will sleek …” (Russo, 1994:8) are a likely dysfunction of ancient Japanese most useful. The following comment by Donna Seaman away from Cobb’s (1997) guide on geisha verifies this new role from social artifice and you will the latest impression out of perfection throughout the production of the newest phantasmagoria of brand new geisha:
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