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Jiangnan Water Town Culture Museum in Hangzhou

HANGZHOU, CHINA - MAY 7, 2024 - A group of gold hairpins on display at Jiangnan Water Town Culture Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, May 7, 2024.

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Non-inheritors Products Exhibition In Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - MAY 23, 2023 - Non-genetic inheritor makes hairpins of intangible cultural heritage at the exhibition of Featured Intangible cultural and Creative Products at the Silk Road Culture and Art Center in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, May 23, 2023.

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-SECOND HAND STORES (CN)

(220116) -- ISTANBUL, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Hairpins and other accessories are seen at a second-hand shop in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 10, 2022. TO GO WITH: "Feature: Second-hand stores gain popularity in Turkey's Istanbul amid financial woes" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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Girls playing the shamisen

Two young women have red lips and red and floral hairpins. One of them is playing the shamisen lute, and the other is turning the pages of a book. The floral hairpins and comb of the woman on the left are made of tortoiseshell.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐43‐0]

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Woman playing games

Each young woman has a facial expression of her own. The shusu satin scarf protecting the collar from stains stands out. Though they are wearing aprons for work, the collar areas show their attentiveness to the fashion of hairpins and kimono.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐37‐0]

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Geisha holding pipes

Two geisha wear their hair in marumage style with kanzashi hairpins. This is a room on the second floor of a house, with a chest of drawers on the right. The geisha on the left is holding a long tobacco pipe. A tobacco tray is placed at her knee, and a shamisen lute is leaning on the handrail. The background scene is a painting on a studio curtain. The carpet on the floor is also a prop.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐19‐0]

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Girls with hair ornaments

The women on the left and centre have their hair arranged in wareshinobu style, while the woman on the right has hers in katsuyama style. Both are the hairstyles of maiko (apprentice geisha) in Kyoto. The flower hairpins on both sides of their heads are pretty.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐8‐0]

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A family at a party

A farming family participates in a studio photograph. A mat is spread on the floor and farming tools are placed against the wall on the left. The man on the left is playing a shamisen lute. Next to him is the mother holding a baby and next to her is the father-in-law. The woman in the middle might be a neighbor who is skilled at entertainment. Her hair is in marumage style with floral hairpins, and she is wearing a half sleeved kimono. Next to her are the granddaughter, mother in-law, grandson and father. The photograph reveals the customs of the mid to late Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐13‐0]

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Women rubbing cheeks

This is a coloured photograph of two Japanese women with hair in nihon-gami style. They are hand-in-hand and cheek-to-cheek. Their facial expressions indicate that this photograph was produced as a souvenir for foreigners. The floral hairpins and combs are highlighted.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐3‐0]

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Women relaxing on a veranda

Four geisha are relaxing on the engawa porch of a guest room with windows, looking at the garden. The woman on the left has her hair arranged in marumage style with floral hairpins and her striped sash tied in chidori-musubi fashion. She is holding a shamisen lute. The slightly elderly woman next to her is wearing black lacquer clogs with high supports. Next to her is an apprentice geisha, and the woman on the far right wears a brightly coloured kimono. A reed chair is visible on the right. Taken in the late Meiji or Taisho Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐49‐0]

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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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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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Dancing geikos

Two young women are dancing with the floral hairpins usually worn by princesses. They are holding fans and wearing colourful long-sleeve kimono.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐107‐0]

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A table and a woman

A woman wearing her kimono rather casually poses with her hand on top of a table covered with lace. Two kanzashi hairpins decorate her unarranged hair. The Western-style chair suggests that this was taken in a studio.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐44‐0]

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Girls

This is a coloured photograph of three women wearing colourful hairpins and kimono. Their sashes are tied in loose darari-musubi style. They may be maiko or hangyoku child entertainers. This is probably a studio photograph.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐45‐0]

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A chair and a woman

A woman stands by a European chair covered with a cloth. She is wearing a padded coat with a yakasuri arrow-splashed pattern over a kimono. Her hair is arranged in tsubushi-shimada style. A comb and hairpins are seen. She appears to be a geisha. This is the same photograph as #2320. It was taken in a studio.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐36‐0]

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A table and a woman

A woman in a long haori coat over her kimono is posing with her hand on top of a tall table covered with lace. There are two kanzashi hairpins decorating her hair arranged in shimada style.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐30‐0]

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A mother and her daughters

This is a studio photograph of three women, probably a mother and her two daughters. Mt. Fuji is painted on the curtain in the back. This is a typical coloured souvenir photograph produced for foreign visitors. The floral hairpins, sash tied in the darari-musubi style and wooden clogs were all popular among girls of the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐34‐0]

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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]