In 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph to have survived to the present day, capturing the view from the window of his studio in Le Gras, France. Just a few years passed and photography had firmly entered people's lives, and history lovers received a new, truly invaluable source of information.
kata ni kite hito natsukashi ya aka-tonbo it comes to my shoulder longing for human company: a red dragonfly Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916)
Five hangyoku (young geisha) from Tokyo, including Sakae (in yellow), surrounding a yukidaruma (snowman).
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Although known as traditional Japanese female entertainers who act as hostesses and whose skills include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music, dance, games and conversation, mainly to entertain male customers, geishas sometimes also had their own time posing with swimsuits for photographing in the past. Some stunning vintage photos of beautiful geishas in swimsuits before the 1930s below will show this.
終戦(敗戦)直後から昭和21,2年辺りまでの写真はモノクロ写真が多い。暗い戦争の...
When the word "Geisha" is used, the mind automatically sees her in character, and in full dress wearing a Japanese kimono. However, a Geisha was what she was 24 hours a day -- no matter what she was wearing. Part of being a Geisha was modeling for the photographer. They were hired on a regular basis to "entertain" the photo-viewing public by appearing in all manner of dress and character. This could be anything from a "Hillbilly Housewife" to a "Bathing Beauty" in the latest swim-wear fashions. Or, in the case of pictures in this group -- visions of the exotic "Occident", or simply an ethereal creation of the photographer. No matter what, when the sun went down, and the Studio skylights grew dim, she would be back at her Tea House, or the Restaurant attached to her "Geisha House" donning her beautiful kimono, classic hairstyle, and white face in preparation for a busy night working hard at her true profession... and perhaps the next day, entertaining at a Wedding. (...and the day after that, singing in a Brothel as "pre-show"entertainment for men who were waiting their turn to sleep with a prostitute).
NOW ON FLICKr.... Over 60 photos of the 20th Century's wildest, tragic, and finally redeemed Geisha Girl. TERUHA, the NINE-FINGERED GEISHA HUH ? NINE FINGERS ? Don't worry, you will get to that ! But first...... As of MAY 2011, the late photographer JIM GATLIN'S "Lost Website" pages about TERUHA have been perfectly restored on the IMMORTAL GEISHA WIKI here : immortalgeisha.com/wiki/index.php?title=Teruha_%28Meiji%29 Please CHECK IT OUT ! ♥ Other scattered captions have various remarks added... some still await comment. This SET also includes the following : ♦ Other Teruha life story information, trivia, and anecdotes, that were never published on Jim Gatlin's website. For example... ► ► ► TERUHA'S FIRST SEXUAL EXPERIENCE AT AGE 13, HER VIEW OF A GEISHA'S LIFE, AND FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT HER DAD) : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4446588770/ ► ► ► THE LOVE STORY BEHIND HER ATTEMPTED "DIGITAL AMUTATION". www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4467457163/ ► ► ► A FORENSIC ANALYSIS of the "MISSING FINGER" : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/6167832934/in/set-7215... ► ► ► HOW DID SHE GET THE NAME TERUHA ? www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2718567707/in/set-7215... ► ► ► MOVIE STAR INTRIGUE and TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4471650015/in/set-7215... ► ► ► HER LESBIAN LOVE AFFAIR in the USA --- AND A BABY IN PARIS www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4472454374/in/set-7215... ..............AND OTHER SCATTERED COMMENTS THROUGHOUT THE SET. ◄► BEFORE READING MORE ABOUT TERUHA AND HER "CHECKERED LIFE", SPEND ONE MINUTE OF YOUR TIME TO READ THIS SHORT FLICKr CAPTION ABOUT ANOTHER GEISHA WHO UNFAIRLY SUFFERED A GREAT PHYSICAL TRAGEDY, BUT LED A FULL LIFE, AND DIED IN THE SAME CHOSEN CIRCUMSTANCES AS TERUHA. PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING ◄► www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/1568521865/ *************************************** TERUHA, (22 April 1896 - 22 October 1994) was many things, including being a.... ♥ Pretty Maiko (Training began at age 12, debuted at age 13). ♥ Popular Geisha. (Loved by her male patrons, despised by her fellow Geisha!) ♥ Young, Romantic and Passionate Lover to many men beginning in her young teens. ♥ Veteran of a few derailed Suicide attempts. ♥ Witness to the ribald lifestyles of Japan's elite...and defendant in a court case that sought to prevent her from publishing what she saw and heard. She won! ♥ Survivor of a few failed marriages. ♥ Lover of an American girl as an experimental Lesbian. ♥ Lover of her own beautiful and luxurious Black Hair. ♥ Single Mother (a daughter born in France). ♥ World Traveler. ♥ Silent Film Movie Star ♥ Successful author who published several books. ♥ Poet whose Haiku compositions ran serially in a Japanese magazine. ♥ Subject of several Japanese Plays and TV Dramas. ♥ Life-long diarist who's meticulous records of her times would make a tall stack. ♥ Bar and Lounge Mama-san -- owner and proprietress of BAR TERUHA ♥ Buddhist Priest from age 38. ♥ Completely bald after shaving her head when she became a Priest, but kept her beautiful black hair in a box for 60 years, and was buried with it. ♥ The Head of her Buddhist Temple until her death at age 98 in 1994 (Japanese sources call her "99 years old" --- meaning she had passed her 98th birthday, and was in the middle of her 99th Year of life). ♥ Finally, a life-long critic of her own Meiji and Taisho-era Maiko and Geisha system that depended on the buying and selling of young girls (as opposed to the modern day system that takes older girls on a free-will basis) ♦ ♦ ♦ Arthur Golden and his Memoirs of a Geisha didn't even come close to the real-life scandals (and the remorse, and the tragic sadness) that was Teruha's life. Flickr member HisuiJADE left this short but telling comment at an old TERUHA post made for the OBI content : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2619768918/#comment721... Above photo is a ca.1911-15 hand-colored collotype photo of Teruha when she was about 15-19. In the meantime, what was TERUHA'S real job like when she wasn't running off with her customers ? THE ANSWER : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2802613366/in/set-7215... ************************************** JIM GATLIN'S TERUHA WEBSITE LINKS RESTORED Dear Readers of these flickr captions, Okinawa Soba (lazy bum that he is) didn't do a damn bit of personal research to find out anything about Teruha. Everything I tell you about her I got from a another photographer named Jim Gatlin. Jim wrote a nice, illustrated Website story about Teruha back in 2001. During that time we corresponded, and he shared with me almost 30 pages of information about Teruha that he had collected but never published on his Website. The material came from scattered stories gleaned from Teruha's Autobiography, and a series of Kyoto Newspaper articles that a friend translated into English for him. To the sadness of many, Jim passed away in 2003. Jim's Website remained up and running (possibly paid for by a family member) until it finally disappeared from internet searches in 2009. Fortunately, another flickr member named Annmarie Olsen told me where Jim Gatlin's defunct Website was hiding on a Webpage Archiving site. I copied all to my hard-drive where it has remained until now. [That move turned out to be a very good thing, as the Web-Archive links themselves would later become inoperable]. The hard drive copies were eventually sent to Naomi Graham, who used them to perfectly reconstruct Jim's TERUHA Website entries on the IMMORTAL GEISHA WIKI. immortalgeisha.com/wiki/index.php?title=Teruha_%28Meiji%29 To my amazement, it turns out that Naomi --- the energetic Webmaster behind the IMMORTAL GEISHA --- was also a corresponding friend of Jim Gatlin from the very beginning. Thanks again to AnnMarie Olsen whose "heads up" to Okinawa Soba resulted in the cliff-hanging capture of Jim Gatlin's old Website, allowing both myself and the IMMORTAL GEISHA to access and present the material --- hopefully, never to be lost again ~ ! WHAT ABOUT THE UN-PUBLISHED MATERIAL ? In this Flickr Set, I will be combining some material previously published by Jim (and now found on the IMMORTAL GEISHA WIKI) with some new material probably making its first appearance in the English language. It includes some nitty-gritty anecdotes from her wild-at-heart lifestyle, and some heart-wrenching episodes of disappointment and abandonment. In this Flickr Set, the Gatlin TEXT ONLY appears at the two Flickr-links below, and does not include Jim's back-ground story about how he found the story of Teruha. For that and all the rest, please enjoy a visit to Naomi Graham's IMMORTAL GEISHA Wiki site linked to above. TERUYA 1 : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2718567707/in/set-7215... TERUHA 2 : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4452493729/in/set-7215... **************************************************** BIBLIOGRAPHY --- Primary sources listed below are in JAPANESE. Flickr captions edited and composed by Okinawa Soba from English translations done by a Japanese translator for Jim Gatlin, who provided the same in their entirety to Okinawa Soba : (1) HANA KUI DORI [A Bird Who Eats Flowers] ~ The Autobiography of the Owner of Gio Temple in Kyoto (2 Vol. 1984) NOTE : Just prior to her Autobiography hitting the shelves, Teruha said, "The public will say, 'Ha! What a book title! This Priestess Chisho has lived her life eating men, not flowers!" (2) DEWDROP DIARY ~ The Autobiography of the Owner of Gio Temple in Sagano (1992) (3) A SHORT STORY OF PRIESTESS CHISHO (By Genjiro Ito. A series of articles that ran in the Kyoto Shimbun [Newspaper] during December 1994) (4) A REMINICENSE OF PRIESTEST CHISHO ~ The Woman Who Passed Away Like a Dewdrop (By Jakusho Setouchi. Published in the Kyoto Shimbun [Newspaper], 23 October 1995).
Ca. 1880~1900s albumen photograph. Photographer unknown.
20160718-DSC04538 宮川町芸妓ふく光さん
A Meiji/ Taisho postcard.
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帯板の写真、以前の使いまわしでーす。すみません。昨日のブログアクセス解析の「キーワードトップ」が「帯板が帯から見えてしまう」…あらま。これを防ぐには…簡単に言ってしまうと…袋帯なら帯の中に、名古屋帯なら「素材選び」…が一番効果的…かな。帯板の入れ方もひとそれぞれ…まずは帯板ってなんだ？から。最近は、後ろにも入れることもあるせいか「前板・後ろ板」とも呼ばれていますが、ここでは「帯板」でお話します。帯板は、明治以降に出てきた「新しい和小物」です。なぜか…帯の形態と帯結びが変わったから。浮世絵などを見ても明らかですが、昔は幅の広い帯を巻いていました。今まで何度も登場してもらっている「お嬢様」…。これは、帯の下に「しごき」というものを巻いて、寸胴にすると同時に、帯の土台をつくっていることが多いです。芸者さんの巻く...帯板あれこれ
One of the key thoughts about history as an educational discipline is the idea that humans, a species that puts so much focus on progress and improvement, could learn from the people and events of the past.
Hello friends of Steemit: I leave you some excellent color photos of authentic Japanese samurai taken in the late… by miyata1987
Late 1920s/early 1930s promotional photos for Aji-no-Moto ("Essence of Taste"), featuring Hiroko, Hatsuko, Fukiko, and two unknown geiko. The company was founded in 1917, so the company was relatively young at this point. (via rosarote)
A collection of fascinating portraits of real samurai warriors taken in the decades before reforms saw the warrior class abolished give an authentic insight into military life in pre-modern Japan.
Judging by the amount of photographs and postcards found today that depict this young Meiji-era Geisha, she rivaled all others for popularity. ♥ PLEASE SEE THE CAPTION AT THIS PHOTO FOR EIRYU'S REAL NAME, AND OTHER IMPORTANT DATA TIDBITS : www.flickr.com/photos/blue_ruin_1/8956677294/ The sampling of postcard images linked to below are all from postcards about 100 years old, and represent only a few of the many that may be found. www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157623479583013/ Most are hand colored collotype prints, but a few are gelatin silver prints. Although other Maiko and Geisha might have been more famous, it is hard to beat the photographs of EIRYU for getting a wider variety of poses, Kimonos, and props. 22 of these just posted to a NEW SET + one added from elsewhere on the photostream. This will take us through the weekend. Enjoy ! PS. Want to know what EIRYU and all of her friends and "sisters" did as a real Geisha ? Read this, and feel a bit closer to her and all the other girls : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2802613366/ Ca.1908-12 hand-colored collotype print.
Geisha Otomaru with her hair dressed in the Sokuhatsu style, which was introduced from the West during the late Meiji period (around 1895), this type of hairstyle is thought to be based on that of the Gibson Girl in America.
