Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha, 27
[…] Then one of the geisha asked Shojiro if he'd heard from Bajiru-san.
'Bajiru-san,' said Shojiro, in the most dramatic manner, 'has abandoned me!'
I had no idea who Shojiro was talking about, but Tachibana, the old koto player, waskind enough to explain me in a whisper that 'Bajiru-san' was the English actor Basil Rathbone - though I'd never heard of him at the time. Shojiro had taken a trip to London a few years earlier and staged a Kabuki performance there. The actor Basil Rathbone had admired it so much that with the help of an interpreter the two of them had developed something of a friendship. Shojiro may have lavished attention on women like Hatsumomo or Mameha, but the fact remained that he was homosexual; and since his trip to England, he'd made it a running joke that his heart was destined to be broken because Bajiru-san had no interest in men. […]
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