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A woman preparing for a meal

A woman is preparing a meal with the long sleeves of her kimono tucked up on the back with a sash and a cloth on her head in ane-san kaburi style. She is slicing a radish on a cutting board, with a wooden tub and portable wooden pail at her side. Two Japanese-style umbrellas are leaning against the wooden sliding door behind her. ==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐29‐0]

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Spinning

A woman with a hair cover in anesan-kaburi style is spinning thread on a spinning wheel. The shoji screens suggest that it is a workshop. A mat is spread on the tatami floor, but the seams are not visible.==Date:Middle Meiji (1883-1897), Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number61‐17‐0]

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A maiko on jinrikisha and women relaxing at a teahouse

A kimono-clad woman is riding a jinrikisha (rickshaw). The short-haired rickshaw man holding the bar is wearing a head towel, sacerdotal robe, long underwear and heavy cloth socks. Three women are relaxing on a bench nearby, while another is standing. The latter is wearing an anesan kaburi head cloth. A large residence is visible behind a cluster of trees.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐168‐0]

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The women at a teahouse

A waitress is serving tea to female customers at a tea house. The waitress has her kimono sleeves pulled up with a cord to enable free movement of her arms. She has a hand towel covering her head in anesan-kaburi fashion. The pine tree at the store front has very impressive branches.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐22‐0]

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Woman collecting wild vegetables

A woman wearing a splendid kimono wearing a towel over her head anesama kaburi style picks edible plants in the mountains. It is a dramatized photo, although she does look rather real, holding her hem up.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number45‐19‐0]

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Woman holding a washbowl

A young woman holds a bath pail with a towel hanging from it. She wears a towel over her head Anesama kaburi style, and holds the hem of her kimono. It is a photo for the image of women going to a public bath.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number45‐14‐0]

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Woman collecting sea shells

A woman wearing a towel over her head Anesama kaburi style picks up shells. The background is the sea. There are boats with sails on the beach. It is probably a dramatized photo.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number45‐13‐0]

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Women picking oysters

Two women fish for oysters covering their heads with a cloth (Anesan kaburi) at the beach. The woman to the left holds a basket in her left hand and has her right hand in the sea. The woman to the right watches the woman at work from the back. Boats can be seen in the distance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number25‐67‐0]

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Beggars

In the Edo era, outcast beggars were assigned to a strict social rank and were controlled by the government. They wore rush mats over their heads, so were called Kaburi Kojiki or Komo Kaburi , and begged in front of houses.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐15‐0]

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Women in anesama-kaburi,headdress of a towel

Two young women act out husband and wife in a dance scene of walking around a farming village. The woman dressed as a man smokes a cigarette, and the wife holds an umbrella to accompany her husband, conveying a feeling of mutual affection. In the distance a farm house can be seen but this is a set on stage.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number15‐24‐0]