What a titillating sound bite it is: Japan's first gaijin (foreigner) geisha!

Who wouldn't want to hear the experiences of a white girl who lived a life that we Westerners have only known through the clouded lens of romantic Orientalism, or "Memoirs of a Geisha" or various other media images?

It was partly her desire to give such a firsthand account that prompted social anthropologist and filmmaker Fiona Graham to join a geisha house early last year and then to live, at least for a while, that life of legend.