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Liza Dalby
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation. Since that time, she has written five books. Her first book, ''Geisha'', was based on her early research. The next book, ''Kimono'' is about traditional Japanese clothing and the history of the kimono. She followed that with a fictional account of the Heian era noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, titled ''The Tale of Murasaki''. In 2007 she wrote a memoir, ''East Wind Melts the Ice'', which was followed two years later by a second work of fiction, ''Hidden Buddhas''.
Dalby is considered an expert in the study of the Japanese geisha community and has acted as consultant to novelist Arthur Golden and filmmaker Rob Marshall for the novel ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' and the film of the same name.
== Background ==
As a high school student, Dalby visited Japan in a student exchange program; there she learned to play the shamisen. In 1975, she returned to Japan for a year to research the geisha community, as part of her anthropology fieldwork. Dalby's research, done as part of her Ph.D studies at Stanford University, was presented in her dissertation, and became the basis for her first book, ''Geisha'', about the culture of the geisha community. Her study, which included interviews with more than 100 geisha, was considered to be excellent and received praise from scholars at the time of publication, although some retrospective scholarship is more critical.〔Bardsley, 314, 318〕 During her Ph.D studies about the geisha community, conducted in Pontochō, she was invited to join a house in Kyoto where she was allowed to attend banquets under the name ''Ichigiku''—in part because she was fluent in Japanese and skilled with the shamisen. She performed at ''ozashiki'' without charging money, and, from the experience, formed friendships and relationships with geisha in the district.〔Nimura, Janice. ("Lady-in-Waiting" ). January 7, 2001. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved July 13, 2011.〕〔Miller, Laura. ("Lady of the Shining Prince". )(July 12, 2000). Salon.com. Retrieved August 31, 2011〕〔Bardsley, 314–315〕
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