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A photo of the female professional wrestling team The Beauty Pair. This image was used to help promote a film based on their exploits in the ring. Professional wrestling has a long, storied history in Japan. Active cultivation of the sport was started following WWII as the country was collectively mourning and recovering after the horrendous bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing approximately 200,000 people and other wide-spread, war-related devastation. The sport became hugely popular, and sometime in the mid-1950s wrestlers from the U.S. would make the trip to Japan to grapple with the country’s newest star athletes including an all-female “Puroresu” (professional wrestling) league, All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling Association, formed in 1955. Just over a decade later, the league would become All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW), and instead of going at it exclusively with American or other foreign wrestlers, the sport started to pit female Japanese wrestlers against each other which is just as fantastic as it sounds. All-female wrestling in Japan in the 1970s was a glorious wonderland full of tough, athletic women happily defying cultural and gender norms. Matches were broadcast on television and a duo going by the name The Beauty Pair ...
Shimura TATSUMI 志村立美 (1907-1980) is known for designing several striking bijin-ga prints towards the end of the shin hanga movement. Born in Takasaki, Gunma, Shimura's real name was Sentaro.
“The Lumière process will make us learn the intricate laws of colour” – Robert Demachy Etheldreda Laing (1872–1960) became interested in photography whilst studying at Cambridge University. When the Lumière brothers’ autochrome process for recording color became available in 1907, she invested in the expensive plates (just four cost the same as a … Continue reading "Girls And Gardens : The English Lady’s Autochromes (c.1908)"
For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and if you've dipped into Messy Nessy's archives, you will have already met the few ladies
1. Japan is home to a 107-year-old sprinter named Hidekichi Miyazaki and he hopes to race Usain Bolt one day.
From intercepting D Day messages from the Nazis to sleeping in freezing huts, 45 women at Britain's code-cracking HQ have revealed details of daily life at the top secret Buckinghamshire mansion.
For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and if you've dipped into Messy Nessy's archives, you will have already met the few ladies
Tattooing is the most misunderstood form of art in contemporary Japan.
First lady Melania Trump attended an event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing wearing a satin floor-length gown in a traditional cheongsam silhouette...
It's International Women's Day, so let's celebrate some incredible women.
Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 20 today. Princess Aiko was born on December 1, 2001. On the oc...
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Today we're escaping a gloomy fall afternoon with a visit to the colourful, extravagant world of Józef Mehoffer. Care to join us in our virtual art gallery? Pink Room, 1907-13 Born in 1869 in what was then Austro-Hungary, Mehoffer studied art in Krakow, Vienna, and Paris. He led the Young Pola
Jeanine Pirro, an enthusiastic Trump supporter and friend of the president, went on a tirade during her show on Saturday night to defend Ivanka after Nordstrom dropped her clothing line.
The yakuza is dominated by men and leaves only informal roles to women. Typically a woman might be a boss' wife who takes care of young affiliates and mediates between them and her husband.
This lovely Japanese lady could even teach millenials a trick or two on how to capture the life's most joyful moments and turn them into magic.
The history of the kimono begins to blossom. Today, we will examine the birth of kimono as a uniquely Japanese garment, starting with the juunihitoe.
For nearly two thousand years, Japanese women living in coastal fishing villages made a remarkable livelihood hunting the ocean for oysters and abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. They are known as Ama, and if you've dipped into Messy Nessy's archives, you will have already met the few ladies
Goddess Drawing a Bow. Woodblock print, early 19th century, Japan, by artist Katsushika Taito II
For more than two years, I have been traveling around the world with my backpack and my camera. In this journey, I photograph natural women surrounded by their environment. My project is called "The Atlas Of Beauty" and is about our planet's diversity shown through portraits of women.
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The King is continuing his battle with cancer as the Princess of Wales revealed she is also fighting the disease.
In art, spirituality and protest, a woman wearing white is a powerful symbol. Is she a goddess, a ghost, a "fallen woman" – or something else entirely, asks Beverley D'Silva.
Alphonse Hirsch (French, 1843-1884) Les Enfants Camando dans le Jardin d'Hiver de leur Hotel Particulier. 1875 г. William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1919) I Am Going To See Grandma. 1889 г. Emilio Grau Sala (Spanish, 1911-1975) Interior. Emilio Grau-Sala (Spanish, 1911-1975) Child with Puppet.…