1. beautiful: "We has the same strange eyes; you hardly ever saw eyes like ours in Japan. Instead of being dark brown like everybody else's, my mother's eyes were a shining gray and mine are just the same"
2. relationships with other characters
2.1. Chairman Ken Iwamura -client, Sayuri's love
2.1.1. kindhearted: "He took a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped my tears"
2.1.2. "The man who had spoken had a broad, calm face. He was probably about forty-five years old, with grey hair combed straight back from his forehead"
2.2. Hatsumomo -geisha from Sayuri's okiyo, rivals
2.2.1. competitive: "Hatsumomo has driven other attractive girls out of Gion"
2.2.2. "Hatsumomo and I have known eachother since i was a girl of six and she was nine." said Mameha. " She's no harder to understand than a cat. A cat that thinks another cat is eating from its dish."
2.2.3. "Mrs. Nitta knows very well what sort of adopted daughter Hatsumomo would be. She would probably drive Mother out, or at least sell the okiya's collection of kimonos and retire.
2.3. Mameha -beautiful geisha, Sayuri's Older Sister
2.3.1. "Mameha, as I later learned, was one of the two or three best known geisha in Japan."
2.4. Nobu Toshikazu -client, wants to be Sayuri's danna
2.4.1. "Sayuri, are you well?" he said, speaking quietly so he didn't wake Mameha."
2.5. Pumpkin -Sayuri's friend
2.5.1. "Pumpkin was still at geisha school. She was a slow learner. Every day she spent hours kneeling in the hall trying to play shamisen, one of the instruments geisha play at parties."
2.6. Mother (Mrs Nitta) -okiya owner
2.6.1. cares only about money: "They'll bring your back. And then Mrs. Nitta will see you as a bad investment. She won't pay for your geisha lessons"