How It All Goes Down
- Sayuri learns that in six months, she has earned more than Hatsumomo and Pumpkin combined.
- That means she gets to kick them out of the big bedroom and take it for herself.
- While switching rooms, Hatsumomo finds Sayuri's journal.
- Or you might call it her memoirs of a geisha.
- Geisha are not supposed to talk about their business, so this journal is a big no-no.
- Hatsumomo takes it, planning to blackmail Sayuri with it.
- Sayuri follows Hatsumomo to get the journal back, and she finds something else: the emerald brooch Hatsumomo said Sayuri stole years ago.
- Sayuri takes the brooch and the journal.
- Hatsumomo tells Mother about the journal anyway, but Sayuri has hidden it where it won't be found.
- Sayuri, in turn, gives Mother the brooch, and Mother orders Hatsumomo to pay back the money that Sayuri had to pay for it when she said it was stolen.
- Things get steadily worse for Hatsumomo. Mameha spreads rumors that she is mentally unstable, and Hatsumomo all but confirms them when she gets into a scratching and biting fight with an actor at a tearoom.
- And just like that, Hatsumomo is banished from the okiya.
- Sayuri says she never saw Hatsumomo again.