This photo is said to be a 1915 postcard. This woman seems to be a Kyoto geiko becouse of her Taikomusubi. She is wearing a luxurious kurotomesode with 5 family crest and kasamatsu motif and a juban with a coloud pattern. Note her "rain accesories" - traditional umbrella and patterned ama geta. Again, not my picture.
Baikasai Festival Located : Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, Kyoto.
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She is younger and more beautiful than me... I wanna be like her.
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Located : Miyagawa-cho, Higashiyama area in Kyoto.
Kyoto, Japan
This is a blog about the Geisha world. I will mostly post about the Kyoto maiko and geiko, but I will try to post about Geisha of other Japanese cities as well. I will try to equally post about all 5 Geisha districts of Kyoto. The pictures posted here are not mine, unless otherwise noted. Each picture belongs to their respective owner, and I will add a link to the owners of each photo. If you have any questions about Geisha, feel free to ask :) My personal blog: weirdgirlwearingblack.tumblr.com
A vintage postcard with the printed signature of Komomo (子桃).
A maiko and geiko (geisha) saying goodbye to a patron outside Pontochō.
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Hatsuko sitting in a chair. A postcard from the late 1920s or early 1930s.
ウェディングドレスのレンタルならアンテリーベ(Amtteliebe)。兵庫県芦屋・大阪・東京銀座・京都河原町に店舗がございます。Aラインやマーメイド、プリンセス、スレンダーはもちろん、和装（着物）までご用意。花嫁様の理想をカタチにします。
Osaka geiko (geisha) often adopted a stylized frown in photographs taken during the Meiji and Taisho periods (1868-1926). I think that this might be an example of the Miyabi aesthetic, one of the oldest of the traditional Japanese ideals of beauty and taste. The Miyabi aesthetic or "the art of elegant refinement", is closely associated with the notion of “mono no aware” (the pathos of things), a bittersweet awareness of the transience of things, a kind of "exquisite sadness" such as one might feel when looking at the last of the cherry blossoms. Printed by S. Kuwada & Sons, Osaka.
Toward the end of February 2021, I heard that the popular geiko Toshiemi san was about to retire. This was surprising news about one of the most popular Geiko of the Miyagawa-Cho Kagai. I promptly asked around and received confirmation of her decision to leave. I was then lucky to be able to arrange for the last photoshoot with her. This took place on the 2nd of March, the day she actually retired. Geiko Toshiemi was wearing a beautiful pink kimono...
京都市東山区祇園 観亀神社大祭 Kanki shrine festival in Gion-Higashi, Kyoto. May 13, 2011.
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