| Unidentified photographer Showing Back Style [Geisha Kimono's and Hairstyle's] 1890s Salt print, hand-coloured Private collection of Rob Oechsle Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ LL/49541 http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2559706751/in/photostream/
(Accessed: 14 Jan 2012)
To the uninitiated Westerner, the old Geisha hairstyles often appear the same at first glance. However, this is not the case, and here we can see THREE basic hairstyles on the four girls. Flickr member KUMIYANAGI has identified them (left to right) as SHIMADA, MARUMAGE, SHIMADA (again), and ICHOGAESHI.
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