Unidentified photographer
1890s
Showing Back Style [Geisha Kimono's and Hairstyle's]

Salt print, hand-coloured
Private collection of Rob Oechsle
Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
 
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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