"The tatami mat must have been engraving tiny strawlike marks into her smooth bottom. It had to. There was nothing to stop it. She was sitting there in her working clothes and I was facing her -- sitting across from her in the long, low straw-matted ocrner fupposed to be a dressing room, a loftlike area set aside for the main stripper at Shinjuku's France-Za Burlesque Theater. She wasn't alone. Like I said, I was with her. In addition, on both sides as far as the eye couls dee, were stripper of the local variety, also in various stages of undress. Mostly un. My objective, Ginger Peachy! That's what she called herself, this voluputuous dream from down under, starring in 'The Golden Miloclus Touch', whatever that meant. She was gorgeous, this Australian chick barely pushing twenty."

1961