<P> A few days later, Sayuri is to meet a client at a teahouse . Believing it's Nobu coming over to meet her to discuss the arrangement of being her danna, Sayuri prepares to see him thinking the Chairman now hates her for humiliating him at Amami by catching her with the Minister . When she arrives at the teahouse, Sayuri is taken by surprise to see the Chairman and confesses that her acts in Amami were for personal reasons . The Chairman admits that he had feelings for her as well, but felt he owed Nobu, his best friend who had also saved his company, the chance to be with the woman that he had expressed a sincere interest in . He admitted that he asked Mameha to train her in order to help her live her dreams as a geisha . The Chairman found out the truth after confronting an angry Pumpkin for Sayuri's humiliation and told Nobu afterwards, Nobu refused to continue his pursuit of becoming her danna . Sayuri and the Chairman kiss, which she feels is her first kiss expressing true love . </P> <P> Sayuri peacefully retires from being a geisha when the Chairman becomes her danna . It is heavily implied that they have an illegitimate son together . Foreseeing the consequences this could have regarding the inheritance of Iwamura Electric, she relocates to New York City and opens her own small tea house for entertaining Japanese men on business in the United States . Sayuri severs her links to the Nitta okiya and in effect, Japan . The Chairman remains her danna until his death and the story concludes with a reflection on Sayuri and her life . </P> <P> Much of the novel is set in the popular geisha district of Gion in Kyoto, and contains references to actual places frequented by geisha and their patrons, such as the Ichiriki Ochaya . Part of the story is also set in the Amami Islands, and Sayuri narrates the story from her suite in the Waldorf towers in New York City . </P> <P> After the Japanese edition of the novel was published, Arthur Golden was sued for breach of contract and defamation of character by Mineko Iwasaki, a retired geisha he had interviewed for background information while writing the novel . The plaintiff asserted that Golden had agreed to protect her anonymity if she told him about her life as a geisha, due to the traditional code of silence about their clients . However, Golden listed Iwasaki as a source in his acknowledgments for the novel, causing her to face a serious backlash, to the point of death threats . In his defense, Arthur Golden countered that he had tapes of his conversations with Iwasaki . Eventually, in 2003, Golden's publisher settled with Iwasaki out of court for an undisclosed sum of money . </P>

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