Top 4 Quotes by Mineko Iwasaki

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.

Mineko Iwasaki

Spiritual, Practice, Discipline

Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.

Mineko Iwasaki

Dance, Teacher, Heart