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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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Koyakko showing her Obi, 1920′s
The very iki (stylish or chic) geisha Koyakko. During her subsequent career as the master dancer Hanayagi Sumi, an orchestral ballet entitled “Heavenly maiden and fisherman” was written for her, which she first performed in 1932. / src: Blue Ruin

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