13 Facts About Fiona Graham

Fiona Caroline Graham was an Australian anthropologist working as a geisha in Japan.

Fiona Graham made her debut as a geisha in 2007 in the Asakusa district of Tokyo under the name Sayuki as a part of her anthropological study, and as of 2021 was working in the Fukagawa district of Tokyo.

Fiona Graham has been a lecturer on geisha studies at Keio and Waseda Universities.

Inside the Japanese Company and A Japanese Company in Crisis are about the large insurance company that Fiona Graham joined upon graduation, and which she later observed, first as a researcher and later as a documentary film maker.

The book's main subject is "the uneven erosion of the commitment of [the company's] salary men to an overarching corporate ideology", with Fiona Graham concentrating on the cohort who entered the company when she did.

In Playing at Politics: An Ethnography of the Oxford Union, Fiona Graham built on a 2001 documentary that she had made for Japanese television about candidacy for president of the Oxford Union:.

Fiona Graham focuses on the highly ambitious individuals who decide that their future careers will benefit more from being known as former Presidents of the Oxford Union than from the quality of their degrees.

Fiona Graham initially entered the geisha profession with the intention of directing a documentary project for the National Geographic Channel; however, upon completing her training, she was given permission to continue working full-time as a geisha, and formally debuted under the name of "Sayuki" in December 2007, though the Asakusa Geisha Association claims that she did not complete required training.

Fiona Graham debuted in the Asakusa geisha district of Tokyo, and her training before this lasted for a year; this included lessons on dance, tea ceremony and the.

In 2011, after being asked to leave the geisha community of Asakusa, Fiona Graham left to operate independently, though she continued to work as a geisha within the area, opening a kimono shop in Asakusa in the same year.

In 2013, Fiona Graham was running an independent in Yanaka, Tokyo, with four apprentices.

Fiona Graham allowed tourists to come and watch the young geisha have their lessons.

Fiona Graham travelled internationally to demonstrate the traditional arts employed by geisha, visiting the United Kingdom to perform at the Hyper Japan festival in 2013, Dubai in the same year, and Brazil in 2015.