About Kiharu Nakamura
Lived 1913 – 2004 (aged 90). Kiharu Nakamura was a Japanese writer and geisha.
was an essayist and former geisha.
Biography Nakamura was born on April 14, 1913, in Hokkaido Her birth name was Kazuko Yamamoto.
In 1929, at age of 16, she became a geisha at a geisha house in Shinbashi. She learned English, and gained a reputation as the first English-speaking geisha. Some of her clients included Babe Ruth, Jean Cocteau, and Charlie Chaplin. She lived in New York City until her death in 2004.
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Japanese writer and geisha (1913–2004)
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Kiharu Nakamura was born on 14 April 1913 in Tokyo.
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Kiharu Nakamura died on 5 January 2004 in New York City.
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Kiharu Nakamura was a writer and geisha.
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Kiharu Nakamura was Japanese.
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