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a different twist
April 6, 2007Nitta Sayuri, one of Japan's top 50 Geishas of all time, successfully retold "making love" in a different light. This explanation was handed over to her by her "older sister," Mameha-san.
In the book, "Memoirs of a Geisha," as Mameha explains to Sayuri the importance of a mizuage, she refers to the man's thing as the "homeless eel."
(with some revisions, i quote)
"Men have a kind of an "eel." on them. Women don't have it. This eel spends its entire life trying to find a home. And what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live. This cave is where the blood comes from every month when the "clouds pass over the moon." Eels are quite territorial. When they find a cave they like, they wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure it's a nice cave. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory by spitting."
Even without the creative mind, one can understand what Mameha tries to explain to then 15-year-old Sayuri. Avoiding reference to the biological terms, the great geisha manages to put "art" in an artform itself.
For more wonderful representations, read the book and be enchanted by the world of the geishas.
*sparkles!
