The story of this thirteen-year-old girl who is sold for a sack of rice to an elderly Geisha, owner of a Geisha and Danna or clients of a very high social class, to make her work as a servant for the now professional Geishas, the girl they are taught to play the "Shamisen" which is a musical instrument similar to the guitar but with a very long shaft and is played with a plectrum made of ivory. The story of the little girl takes place simultaneously with the history of Japan in the "Showa" era (from 1926 to 1989) with very important historical facts suchas the Mukden incident or nationalistic and military propaganda. Tsuru will suffer a rape and so the mistress will decide to initiate her into a mature Geisha, therefore there will be a leap of five years, where we see Tsuru having become an adult and a professional Geisha and there we begin to get to know Tsuru's character in depth. A very complex manga that shows off all the beauty, the elegance of the Kazuo Kamimura line, a very important figure in the world of Gekiga manga. The thing that strikes a lot about this manga is also the bloody scenes are elegant and delicate, a story that focuses not only on the world of geishas but also on women in general. This manga blows me away because every word I spend will never be enough to describe this masterpiece. The history of its publication is very curious, I will certainly reread this manga because by rereading it you can discover new things. I give 10 to the story and 10 to the drawing.