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Maiko girls dance in dress rehearsal

KYOTO, Japan - Traditional maiko girls clad in long-sleeved ''furisode'' dance in a dress rehearsal at Kyoto's Gion Kaburenjo on June 14 in preparation for their annual stage performance ''Miyako-no-Nigiwai (din and bustle of Kyoto)'' due to begin in the ancient capital June 16.

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Kimono for the coming of age ceremony

Dressed in kimono for the coming of age ceremony in Shibuya Ward Miyano. Visitors to the ceremony enjoy kimono with their favorite accessories. Many pf them wear kimono with retro styling. For the past few years, it has been popular for kimono and used kimono from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. It seems that this trend is still continuing . January 13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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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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A chrysanthemem exhibition at Nozawa Garden

Three girls are reading a letter. Behind them, many types of chrysanthemum flowers are in full bloom in an exhibition. Their hair is in momoware style and they wear furisode kimono and bokkuri wooden clogs. This was typical attire for an outing in the Meiji and Taisho Periods.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐48‐0]

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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 dressed up

A young woman in furisode kimono is posing in front of the brick wall of a Western-style building. Her manner of dress suggests that she is a maid. The cloth hanging from her sash at her waist seems to be a head cover.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐189‐0]

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A bride

Since this is a black and white photograph it is difficult to say for sure, but the bride's dress seems to be of black crepe in formal furisode style. It has bright floral patterns with five crests which were a frequent pattern in bridal costumes. The hair is arranged in bunkin-takashimada coiffure. A tortoiseshell comb, floral comb and floral hairpin are placed in the hair with a tsunokakushi hood all around.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐148‐0]

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A woman carrying a flower basket

A flower seller poses in a photograph studio. The woman is wearing a white head cloth and a kimono and carries a basket of flowers. The striped kimono is a furisode (long sleeve kimono for single women). The white cloth hanging from her waist is probably a bag for carrying various items.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐115‐0]

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Young brothers

The girl on the left wears a furisode kimono. She still needs to wear a bib. An adult is holding her from behind. Her older brother wears a haori coat and hakama trousers. Only wealthy families could afford to have photographs taken in the Meiji Period.==Date:1921, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐86‐0]

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A girl with hair ornaments

The woman has her hair arranged in warikarako style (like marumage for married women), with floral hairpins, kogai pins and karako-chirimen crepe on the head. She is wearing a furisode kimono, and the collar of her undergarment is revealed to a considerable degree. This is a stereograph taken in Nagasaki by Wilhelm Burger.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Wilhelm Burger, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number70‐25‐0]

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Geikos taking a walk

Three geiko entertainers pose in front of a restaurant, perhaps their work place. The women in the middle and on the right are wearing long-sleeve furisode kimono with long red sashes. They are raising the hem of the kimono because it inhibits walking at work. They are standing in a typical geiko pose.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐137‐0]

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A girl in profile in the mirror

A Japanese woman wears a furisode kimono with iris flower designs and a deep crimson han'eri (removable neckpiece). She has beautiful black hair and shining skin. Her sense of beauty may have been refined by the spirit of civilization and enlightenment in the Meiji Period. It makes the viewer yearn for Meiji Japan.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐125‐0]

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Women relaxing at a teahouse in a park

When spring comes many flower viewers visit places famous for cherry blossoms. Shops that serve tea or sweets are indispensable to these picnic resorts. Many people are visible. The woman on the left is wearing a kimono in furisode style with the sash hanging loosely and a pair of wooden clogs. The comb also has a flower design suited to the atmosphere of spring gaiety.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐73‐0]

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A woman holding a pipe

A woman with a tobacco pipe and a girl are in a small room. The woman, who wears her hair in marumage style, might be a geisha. She wears a vertically striped kimono with a black collar and a sash tied in shimabara-musubi style. A flower vase and a tray with a sake set are lying near her knees. The girl touching the paper sliding window may be an apprentice geisha. She is wearing a vertically striped furisode kimono.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐37‐0]

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Geikos

Geisha create a sense of dignity and grace. The correct dancing posture is expressed in their furisode kimonos and loosened sashes. The cotton filled hem of the kimono is a traditional fashion.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐16‐0]

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Women making tea

Three young women have their hair arranged in the takashimada style popular in the Meiji Period. Tea is being served. Each woman wear a furisode kimono and kanzashi hairpins. This is a formal costume. Cherry blossoms are painted on the fusuma sliding doors and on the scroll in the tokonoma (alcove) in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐6‐0]

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Hina-matsuri,a doll festival

The Hina festival celebrated by five young women wearing furisode (long sleeved kimono). A Hina canopy is placed at the back to the right, and Hina dolls are arranged on it. The photo numbered 45-30 was taken at the same opportunity as this photo.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number45‐29‐0]

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Girls playing in a river boat

Three women wearing furisode (long-sleeved kimono) are in a flat boat as if in a boat picnic. A board is placed between the bank and the shore. They are scared as they carefully board the boat.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number45‐17‐0]

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Women hunting for fireflies

A dramatized photo which makes us image fire-fly watching. The woman wearing a furisode (long-sleeved kimono) in sandals holds a bamboo leaf, the woman to the right holds a round fan, and they look at the basket to place the fire-flies.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number45‐3‐0]

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Women turning an album

A young woman sits wearing a furisode (long sleeved kimono) on a chair without a back, and looks at a picture book spread on a Western-style table. An elderly woman stands nearby looking at the same book.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number25‐22‐0]

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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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Woman hanging kakejiku,a hanging scroll

A young woman wearing a furisode with hair done in takashimada style shows a middle-aged man a Bodhidharma scroll. It may be a dramatized photo of a geisha showing her knowledge off to her patron. The man has an emblems on his kimono and a muffler, and holds his hands over the brazier.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐8‐0]

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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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Dance lesson

Young women wearing furisode and a geisha do a dance on the stone pavement of a restaurant garden. There are many trees planted in the garden. This may be a dancing class.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐25‐0]

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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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Woman washing things in a tub

A young woman wearing furisode (long sleeved kimono) and a towel over her head washes dishes in a basin. This is probably a dramatized photo of Kichen chores. Two water pails, a wash basin and a big basket are placed to show the typical tools in a Japanese washing set. The flower is ornamental.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐4‐0]

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Make-up and dressing

Three young women in furisode put on make-up and dress up. The woman putting on make up is putting cosmetic powder on her cheek in front of a mirror on a dressing table, while the girl sitting helps the standing girl tie her obi (sash) in an otaiko (arched style).==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐41‐0]

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Hairdressing

A woman dressed in a kimono (probably the mother) inserts pins in the hair of a young girl dressed in furisode (long-sleeved kimono). On the dressing table are a mirror and articles for hair dressing.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐39‐0]

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Spinning

Two young girls wearing furisode (long sleeved kimono). One transfers the thread to the loom, and the other loosens the thread bunch. Material thought to be for kimono hangs from a stand in the back, making it look like material they are about to weave.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐40‐0]

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Maiko girls dance in dress rehearsal

KYOTO, Japan - Traditional maiko girls clad in long-sleeved ''furisode'' dance in a dress rehearsal at Kyoto's Gion Kaburenjo on June 14 in preparation for their annual stage performance ''Miyako-no-Nigiwai (din and bustle of Kyoto)'' due to begin in the ancient capital June 16.