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Dance lesson

Geiko apprentices practice dancing. The apprentices were called hangyoku (half gems) or hinagi (fledgling entertainers). This is a scene from the early Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐58‐0]

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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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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]