While walking down beside the Shirakawa Stream, Chiyo cries sadly because the thought of never becoming a geisha is just killing her. Suddenly, Chairman Iwamura Ken notices the young Chiyo, and he walks toward her. He gently asks Chiyo why she’s crying, and he praises her unusual beautiful eyes.The Chairman then gives her his handkerchief to wipe her tears and buys an iced snow-cone to cheer her up. Chiyo is fascinated by the Chairman because there has been no one as kind as the Chairman to her. The Chairman's kindness inspires Chiyo to become a geisha one day in order to gain his attention again. Several months have passed with no change in Chiyo’s life as a maid except the unexpected death of Granny in the early September.Granny is electrocuted by her heater. As a result, the life in the Okiya becomes disrupted; many geishas would pass through the Nitta Okiya to give their final respects to Granny. One afternnon, Mameha, one of the most popular geisha in Gion, passes by and shows her interests in Chiyo. Mameha sees Chiyo and parises Chiyo’s appearance and seemingly to be worried about Chiyo, having not seen her at school for some time. Mameha argues with Mother saying that it would be a waste of talent to keep Chiyo as a maid. She sucessfully convinces Mother to continue Chiyo’s training as a geisha under her and promise Mother that Chiyo would able to pay her debts before age 20. As a result,Chiyo becomes the “little sister” of Mameha.
When Sayuri first meets the Chairman, she is still only two years old and he is a little bit over fourty. The Chairman’s elegance and kindness inspires her to be a great geisha. For years, she dreams about him and fantasizes about impressing her with her talent and charm. Years later, when she finally meets him again, she finds that he is the head of Iwamura Electric, a large company in western Japan. She’s also happy to find that he is still the kind man that she remembers. Through reading the articles, Chiyo finds out that the Chaiman has gone to work at a small electric company in Oaska at age 17. His job at there is to supervise the crew that install wiring for machinery for machinery at factories in the area. In his spare time, he would try to design a fixture to allow the use of two lightbulbs in a socket built for only one. At the age twenty-two, in 1912, shortly after marrying, the Chairman left that company to establish his own company. For the first few years, things were difficult; however, things turn good when his new compnay won the electrical wiring contract for a new builing on a military base in Oaska. Besides being a hard-working man, the Chairman deeply loves and respects his wife and his daughters.
The one word I can say about these three chapters is AMAZING! I think the story line is extremely good. My heart almost melts when Sayuri meets the Chairman. The Chairman is being so nice to Sayuri: he comforts her, buys an snow-cone for her, and he even gives her his handkerchief to wipe her tears. I almost cry when I read this scene because since Chiyo is sold to the okiya, the only thing she faces is the critisisms from Mother and Hatsumomo and this is her very first time when someone really notices and cares about her feelings. The description of the Chairmans’s kindess is also amazing. I thought that I almost fall in love with the Chairman as well.
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