Ira Lawrence Hill :: Ruth St Denis in The Peacock, 1914-1915 / source: NYPL
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Pensive young woman at the beach, view from side. Vintage snapshot, undated. / src: eBay
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Kichiya-musubi, 1905
A Geisha dressed in the Genroku style, fashionable among Tokyo Geisha around 1905-1908. She is showing her obi, tied in the Kichiya-musubi style, a knot named after Kamimura Kichiya (or Uemura Kichiya I) who was a popular Kabuki Actor during the Genroku period (1680′s).
The Kichiya-musubi was in fact a particularly famous and popular knot, mentioned specifically in a number of poems. The knot is a relatively simple one, but with small lead weights hidden in the obi, weighing down the ends of the bow, so they drooped “like the ears of a … Chinese lion-dog.” / src: Blue Ruin
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Geiko Tomeko, sometime around the 1930′s / source: Blue Ruin
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Geiko Tomigiku reading a Newspaper, 1921. The supremely stylish Tomigiku, dated 28/12/1921 on the reverse./ source: Blue Ruin
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Shinbashi Geisha with a Cricket Cage, 1905. Insects as pets. / source: Blue Ruin
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