![]() Together Pumpkin and Chiyo struggle through the daily life of being treated as nothing more than slaves to the resident geisha, Hatsumomo-the story's villain, who tries her hardest to make Chiyo's life as miserable as possible. At the Nitta Okiya Chiyo meets another girl about her age nicknamed Pumpkin. An Okiya is a house (sort of a compound) where a geisha lives. ![]() When worse comes to worst for her family, she is sent to the Nitta Okiya while her older sister Satsu is transferred elsewhere. Chiyo, age 9, lives in Yoroido, an impoverished fishing village on Japan's coast.
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