How It All Goes Down
- While Sayuri lives with Arashino, she gives us the death toll during the war.
- A fellow geisha named Raiha: dead.
- Sumo wrestler Miyagiyama: dead.
- Mameha's dresser, Mr. Itchoda: dead.
- The Baron: dead (of suicide).
- Mameha: don't worry, she's fine.
- Sayuri's life at Arashino's residence is a-okay. He is able to sell kimono when the family needs money, and they make it through.
- The war ends (in less than a chapter, making this the shortest World War II ever) and Arashino begins to make kimono again.
- Sayuri has a brief affair with a tatami mat maker, and their romance is even shorter than the war.
- One cold November, Sayuri has a visitor: Nobu.
- He's alive, and he wants Sayuri to return to Gion and geisha it up like in the old days.
- He gives her a piece of concrete, and says one day he will exchange it with her for a gemstone.
- She decides to go back…if she can persuade Mother to take her back.