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Women singing and playing the shamisen,a japanese balalaika

A scene of two young women wearing Tayu-style kamishimo while practicing singing and shamisen. One woman checks the book placed on the book stand with a family emblem and tassel, and the other woman plays the shamisen with a plectrum to tune the instrument.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐8‐0]

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Practicing the koto and shamisen

Three young women practice singing and playing instruments in a breezy corner room facing the garden. A woman plays the shamisen. The other sings, and the other plays the koto. By their side, a tobacco tray is placed, with a scroll hanging to their back. Near the ceiling hangs a picture, a calligraphy frame and a clock.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐11‐0]

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Dance lesson

Young girls in furisode (long sleeved kimono) are dancing and playing musical instruments. One dances with a fan, one plays the koto, and the other plays the shamisen. It is a dramatized photo of a lesson in traditional arts.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐43‐0]

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Actors

This photograph captures a play performed by girls. This is one of a Yokohama album which contains small-sized photographs depicting Japanese customs. The girls played a variety of characters such as monkey trainer, babysitter, and preacher.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐41‐0]

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Practicing traditional songs

The woman is practicing songs and accompanying herself on a shamisen (three-stringed lute). The hair style with tortoiseshell hairpins and the look of her kimono collar suggest that she is a geisha (entertainer). The bonsai potted plants on each side are props.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐51‐0]

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Girls practicing traditional songs

Two women hold shamisen (three-stringed lutes) while another woman holds a song book. This seems to be a scene from a regular practice session. The hairstyles with kanzashi (hairpins) and the look of the kimono collars suggest that the women are professionals.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐43‐0]

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Girls practicing traditional songs

One woman holds a shamisen (three-stringed lute) while other three women practice songs. The title of the song book held by the standing woman is Sendai Hagi Goden no dan. The look of the women's kimono collars suggest that the models are professionals.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐38‐0]

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Women performing ozashiki dance

One woman is wearing a hachimaki (head towel). Three women are dancing to the music of a shamisen (three-stringed lute), their sleeves tied up with cords and their legs lifted high. This is a playful, not traditional and refined, dance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐2‐0]

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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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Women performing ozashiki dance

One woman is wearing a hachimaki (head towel). Three women are dancing to the music of a shamisen (three-stringed lute), their sleeves tied up with cords and their legs lifted high. This is a playful, not traditional and refined, dance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐17‐0]

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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 a room. The master wears her hair in an unarranged manner. This seems to be the scene of a practice session inside a house.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐14‐0]

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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]

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Dancing geikos wearing sashes

Three women in kimono with pulled-up sleeves are performing a dance dressed as men in a zashiki guest room looking over a Japanese garden. Whether they are professional dancers is uncertain, but the dance does not seem to be a traditional performance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐17‐0]

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Woman playing drums

Two young women practice the drum and small drum. The woman to the right has a small drum on her right shoulder, but also has a large drum on her lap.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐43‐0]

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Practicing the koto and shamisen

Two young women practice the koto and the shamisen. From their hairstyles, they are probably Hangyoku (an apprentice geisha).==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐30‐0]

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Singing women

Written SINGING GIRL in the picture. The woman sits with legs folded holding a fan in her left hand. Her right hand is placed to the back on her hip, and her neck is slightly tilted, so she may be singing and practicing the poses of a dance in a sitting position.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number25‐27‐0]

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Dance lesson

Three young women wearing furisode (long sleeved kimonos) dance with parasols. The three to the right and left hold parasols, and the woman in the centre holds a pillar of the bamboo fence. The background is a picture of Mt. Fuji.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number23‐7‐0]

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Girls clenching their fists

Young women wearing haori coats engage in a game of paper-scissors-rock to the sound of the shamisen. The woman in the center plays the shamisen, and the other two sit facing each other holding out their hands to play the game.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐53‐0]

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Dance lesson

The English caption reads Dancing troupe . Three young women engage in dancing. Two wear furisode (long-sleeved kimono) and a woman wearing a hair band sticks to the woman acting out a drunk man with a towel wrapped the opposite way.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐51‐0]

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Tea ceremony

Probably a scene of tea ceremony practice. The master serves tea to a priest and two young women in furisode (long-sleeve kimono). On the tatami, there is the tea kettle, tea spoon, tea container, sweets to go with the tea and tea cups.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐19‐0]

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Dance lesson

A young woman wearing a furisode (long-sleeved kimono) and dancing with a fan. She has an ornamental hairpin in her hair, and the fan has a fringe. The floor is covered with a mat, probably placed there for the photo. This stimulates the interest of foreigners to in Japanese dancing.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐8‐0]

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Dancing geikos

Two women dressed oiran-style and wakashu-style hold hands and dance. The oiran-style woman has a towel tied around her head to the chin, and acts out the role of a drunken, style, imitating a courtesan mesmerized by a young man.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number15‐16‐0]

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Dancing children

Two young women dance dressed as a woman and a man. The woman dressed as a man is a warrior with haori, hakama and a wooden sword. The other woman wears an courtesan costume and holds a stick to compete with the woman dressed as a man.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐48‐0]

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A woman with a shamisen

A geisha-style woman wearing a striped kimono with hair done in Japanese style stands with a shamisen.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐38‐0]

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A woman playing the shamisen

A woman dressed in a kimono and hair in Japanese style sits in a room playing a shamisen. A tray with a tea set and a tobacco tray are placed next to her, and a screen is placed at her back.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐48‐0]

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Dance lesson

Two young women wearing long-sleeved kimono practice Japanese dancing. One opens her fan, and the other sits on a cushion to play the shamisen. The background suggests a room, but the mat under their feet is inappropriate.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐49‐0]

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A woman playing the koto

Dramatized photo of a young woman in kimono playing the koto, and another woman sitting on a cushion by a brazier listening to her play. A sansui picture hangs in the background, but this may be one of the sets at the photo studio.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number7‐43‐0]

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Geisha in theatrical kimono

Five women dressed in the Shiranami Gonin Otoko style, with high sandals, hanging towel and Japanese umbrellas. Caption reads Weibliche Kosdumgruppe.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number1‐5‐0]