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RAZORBILL

Razorbill (Alca torda), mating. Razorbill (Alca torda). Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734 undefined

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RAZORBILL

Razorbill (Alca torda). Razorbill (Alca torda). Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734 undefined

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RAZORBILL

Razorbill (Alca torda). Razorbill (Alca torda). Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734 undefined

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RAZORBILL

Razorbill (Alca torda), mating. Razorbill (Alca torda). Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734 undefined

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RAZORBILL

Razorbill (Alca torda), mating. Razorbill (Alca torda). Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734 undefined

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ATLANTIC PUFFIN

Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica). Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Common Puffin Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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ATLANTIC PUFFIN

Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica). Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Common Puffin Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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GUILLEMOT

Herring piglet (Uria aalge). Common Murre (Uria aalge). Uria aalge Pontoppidan, 1763 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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GUILLEMOT

Common Murre (Uria aalge), flying in formation. Common Murre (Uria aalge). Uria aalge Pontoppidan, 1763 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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GUILLEMOT

Common Murre (Uria aalge), flying in formation. Common Murre (Uria aalge). Uria aalge Pontoppidan, 1763 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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GUILLEMOT

Herring piglet (Uria aalge). Common Murre (Uria aalge). Uria aalge Pontoppidan, 1763 Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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PUFFIN

Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica). Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758)SynonymsCommon PuffinPhoto: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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PUFFIN

Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica). Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Common Puffin Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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PUFFIN

Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica). Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Common Puffin Photo: Magnus Martinsson / TT / 2734

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U.S.-MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY-NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART

(220901) -- KANSAS CITY (U.S.), Sept. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Marla Van Thournout, manager of Volunteer Engagement at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, stands beside a canopy bed with alcove made in the 16th century, in Kansas City, Missouri, the United States, on Aug. 11, 2022. (Xinhua/Xu Jianmei) TO GO WITH Feature: Art collection gives U.S. heartland taste of Chinese culture

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The Bed; Secrets D'Alcove film (1954)

Martine Carol Characters: Agnes de Rungis (segment 'Lit de la Pompadour, Le') Film: The Bed; Secrets D'Alcove (1957) Director: Henri Decoin 19 May 1954 Date: 19-May-54

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Japan - Music Teacher playing a Shamisen

Japan - Music Teacher playing a Shamisen (or Samisen). The alcove behind her is called the tokonoma and is the pride of the house Date: 1932

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Girls having a meal

Three young women wearing kimono and hair done in Japanese style pour and drink sake together with a meal placed on low tables in front of each. The alcove has arranged flowers and a scroll with a crane.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐18‐0]

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Zashiki,a japanese style room,at an inn

Room No.31 on the first floor of the Kansuiro in Tonosawa Hot Springs. Although restored after the Great Kanto Earthquake,the room is not exactly as it was, but the general structure of the room with its alcove, shelves, shelves near the ceiling, and closet are nearly the same as the present.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐43‐0]

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The residence of Okuma Shigenobu

A scroll is hanging in the alcove, and a large vase has been placed in front. When Okuma Shigenobu died in 1922, his house and garden were donated to Waseda University in accordance with his will. The garden is about 33,960 square metres in area. Okuma Hall is now located on the site of the house. The Rihga Royal Hotel Waseda was opened in the northern part of the garden in 1994. This stereograph was published in 1904.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐73‐0]

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Okuma Shigenobu in traditional attire

Okuma Shigenobu sits on a chair, posing in front of an alcove in his residence with a cane and Western shoes. He wore a prosthesis after losing his right leg in 1889, the year after he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. Kurushima Tuneyuki of the right-wing political organization Genyosha threw a bomb at him in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs. He formed the first party cabinet in 1898 after becoming prime minister. This photograph was taken around 1907, when he became chancellor of Waseda University.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐72‐0]

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Geisha having a meal

A senior geisha serves a meal to younger geishas who are sitting in front of the alcove, traditionally the seat reserved for a guest or older people. The subtitle reads The Correct Serving of a Japanese Meal. This is obviously a staged photograph for foreigners. Although they were odd to Japanese people, scenes such as this seem to have appealed to foreigners.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐70‐0]

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Women and a girl playing go

Two women are playing a game of go near a tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. Another woman is watching the game, holding tea cups on a tray. Sweets and a tobacco tray are placed in the foreground.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number95‐21‐0]

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A woman writing a letter,and whispering girls

The woman on the left is writing a letter, and the woman in the centre is reading either a letter or a book. A girl is whispering something into the ear of the woman sitting on the right. A shamisen lute is placed against the alcove. Chrysanthemums are arranged in the big vase.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number95‐23‐0]

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Women playing go

Two women facing each other are about to start a game of go in front of a tokonoma (alcove). Tea and sweets are placed in the foreground, and the white and black pebbles used in the game are visible. The dried flowers placed on a table in front of the tokonoma present an artificial scene.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐50‐0]

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A girl dancing to the shamisen

A young woman has finished dancing to music performed by her master on the left. A scroll is hanging in the alcove, flowers are arranged in a vase, and a gekkin (moon lute) is placed against the door behind. The fusuma door is a divider between two rooms.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐41‐0]

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Shamisen practice

A woman is practicing an indigenous song or ballad accompanied by shamisen lute. The alcove behind is not real.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐20‐0]

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Four women playing with a rope (a hanging fox)

Four women are engaged in a string game called tsurigitsune. The woman on the right is playing a musical instrument. Flowers are arranged on the alcove, and a gekkin (moon lute) is hanging on the wall.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number89‐15‐0]

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Women reading books

The girl on the right reading a book has her hair arranged in ichogaeshi style. The woman on the left is holding a fan. There is a scroll hanging in the alcove in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kajima Seibei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐28‐0]

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Women making tea

An elderly woman is being greeted on both sides by two younger women in a room with an alcove. The scroll is a painting of the nanga (southern school of Chinese painting), and plum blossoms are arranged in a vase. A box of tea ceremony confections tied with a red and white mizuhiki paper string is visible in front.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐38‐0]

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Women dancing to the shamisen and koto

We can almost hear the sounds of the shamisen lute and taiko drums. The water lily arranged in the alcove suggests that the season is early spring. The rising sun on the fan indicates a national holiday. An ichimatsu doll is placed on the shelf. This was taken in a living room.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐36‐0]

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Women greeting each other

A young woman in a furisode kimono offers a greeting to her host in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a byobu screen placed to the right. A gift box tied with a mizuhiki (red and white string) is presented. The young woman is expressing thanks for something with this greeting.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐31‐0]

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A waiting maid serving tea to the lady

A maid is offering a cup of tea to a lady in formal attire. The lady is wearing a kimono with her family crest on the left and right sleeves and the back, and her hair is arranged in the shimada style. Maids usually wore short-sleeved kimono, but this woman is wearing a long-sleeved furisode and women's culottes. This may be the result of a mistake by the photographer. The layout of the alcove where a scroll is hanging and the setting of the floor with carpet-like mattresses are also odd.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐77‐0]

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A woman having tea

A woman with a tea tray sits in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. The woman is dressed in kimono with the sash tied. She appears to be traveling. This may be a room in an inn.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number76‐13‐0]

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Two women

Two women are sitting formally in front of an alcove. A brazier is placed between them, indicating that it is winter. The woman on the left is sitting on a zabuton cushion.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐53‐0]

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Tokonoma (an alcove)

Tokonoma (an alcove)==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Women at a brothel

A two-story residence has a garden with a fountain. The room beyond the porch on which the women are sitting, is a zashiki room with a tokonoma alcove. People other than courtesans are visible on the left and in the far corner of the garden on the right.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐29‐0]

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Okuma Shigenobu in traditional attire

This is Okuma Shigenobu relaxing in front of an alcove in his later years. Originally from the Saga Domain, he studied Dutch and English in Nagasaki, became a diet member, then served as minister of finance and established the basis of the capitalist system in Japan. He founded Waseda University and served as president of the Kenseito (Constitutional Party)==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐13‐0]

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Women greeting each other

Two women are exchanging greetings in front of a tokonoma (alcove) in the main room of a large house. This portrays a very polite greeting by a woman with hair arranged in shimada style bowing deeply after being served a cup of tea. Two braziers have been placed in the room, indicating that another visitor preceded this woman.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐16‐0]

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A Shinto priest

The man wears a full Shinto priest costume with an eboshi cap and holds a mace. A scroll is displayed in the alcove to the far left, and an altar is visible. Sacred paper strips and a sacred pitcher are seen on the plain wood tray.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number60‐3‐2]

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Women playing Japanese musical instraments

This is probably a room in traditional Japanese restaurant. The five women hold (from left) a taiko drum, tsuzumi hand-held drum, and shamisen lutes. A gekkin (moon lute), which is used in Chinese folk songs, is displayed in the alcove.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐158‐2]

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Greetings during a visit

The guest on the left is presenting a gift to her host in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. This is a depiction of Japanese customs produced in a studio for sale to foreigners.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐153‐0]

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A woman writing a letter

A woman is writing a letter next to an andon lamp. Chrysanthemums and birds are painted on a scroll hanging in the alcove behind. A beautifully dressed girl is looking in from the open sliding door. A gekkin (moon lute) is placed against another door.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐161‐0]

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Samurai and women greeting each other

The man has placed his sword to the right and is exchanging greetings with two women in front of an alcove with a hanging scroll. They have one hand placed over the other. The English title reads VISITING CEREMONIALS. A gekkin (moon lute) is hanging on the alcove pillar.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐138‐0]

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Greetings in an ozashiki

New Year's decorations are visible in the tokonoma (alcove) in the centre. Cranes are painted on a hanging scroll. Two women clad in kimono are exchanging a polite New Year's greeting. Women's New Year was celebrated on January 9th (not 1st). Women visited people's houses to offer New Year's greeting within the period of the New Year holiday. The English title reads JAPONIS ROOM.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐129‐0]

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A woman with a shamisen

A woman is playing a Chinese lute in a reed chair. Japanese embroidery is visible on her kimono. She wears a sash clip and a semi-formal haori coat for outings. The alcove shows Japanese architectural design, while the carpet is Western in style. The photograph includes Japanese, Western and Chinese elements.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐101‐0]

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Silk spinning

A woman wearing a hand towel as hair cover and an apron is spinning threads using a twiner. She is in a room with an alcove with a hanging scroll. This could not be her real workplace.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐97‐0]

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A woman preparing dishes for guests

The woman is wearing a dark purple gray kimono with tomesode sleeves and a cotton-filled hem. The elegant beauty of a mature woman is exuded by her posture and the tying of her sash in a taikojime knot. She is getting ready to welcome guests. A drum is visible on the alcove.==Date:Middle Meiji (1883-1897), Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐98‐0]

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Women greeting each other

A woman exchanges a greeting after presenting a gift of sweets. Arranged flowers have been placed on the left, while a drum and tea kettle are visible near the tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. This greeting seems to be part of a lesson on various aspects of etiquette.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number50‐14‐0]

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Practicing traditional songs

A girl receives a singing lesson from a master who is accompanying her on a shamisen (three-stringed lute) in front of a tokonoma alcove decorated with flowers. Taking lessons of this sort was customary for the children of well-to-do families.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐1‐0]