images that haunt us
TERUHA -the nine fingered-geisha or the nine-fingered priest- Looking Cool, Calm, and Collected in Old Japan While Her
Bandaged Little Finger Tells a Troubled Tale – or, The Full Story of How she Became Known as ‘The Nine-Fingered Geisha’, 1910| src: Okinawa Soba (Flickr)
TERUHA –
the nine fingered-geisha or the nine-fingered priest
– Reaching for Her Dropped Fan, ca. 1910 | src: Okinawa Soba (Flickr)
TERUHA (the nine fingered-geisha or the nine-fingered priest) with Flower and Doll,
ca. 1910 | src: Okinawa Soba (Flickr)
Teruha at age 14,
when she was either still a MAIKO named CHIYOHA in Osaka, or a
MAIKO named CHIYOHA in Tokyo, where she had recently moved to escape her
scandalous reputation as “The Maiko without a Little Finger”.
Teruha, aka the nine fingered-geisha or the nine-fingered priest | src: Okinawa Soba (Flickr)
un regard oblique 