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Hairdressing

A woman is looking in a mirror, preparing to go out. Her obi sash is tied in the darari-musubi (hanging tie) fashion popular among the daughters of wealthy merchants and samurai. They often wear brightly coloured collar attachments.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐27‐0]

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Woman playing a blindfold game (treasure mine and gold mine)

Young women are enjoying a game in a Japanese garden with stone lanterns. Their sashes are tied in loose darari-musubi style, and they are wearing bokkuri wooden clogs. The red colour of the juban (undergarment) is peeping through the hem of their kimono. They are of course posing for this photograph. The English title on the lower left reads GIRLS PLAYING. This is a typical photograph produced for foreigners.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number89‐14‐0]

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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 woman holding a pipe

A woman relaxing at a brazier holds a long tobacco pipe. She is wearing a black collared kimono made of relatively thick fabric. Her sash is tied in chidori-musubi style. Her hair is arranged in simplified marumage style.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number76‐15‐0]

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A maiko seen from the rear

Maiko are girls who entertain quests at a banquet by dancing. Today, the maiko of the Gion Quarter of Kyoto are famous. The maiko's sash is tied loosely and the ends left to hang. Called darari musubi, this tying method was popular in the Edo Period. The maiko of Kyoto still wear kimono in this fashion. The hair seems to be arranged in ware shinobu style.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐89‐0]

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A chair and a woman

A woman standing by a European chair covered with a cloth. She is wearing a pale purple kimono with no design and a black collar fashionable in Tokyo in the mid-Meiji Period. The sash is tied in a chidori-musubi knot. Her hair is arranged in the otarai style popular among relatively older women of the Meiji Period. This is a studio photograph.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐35‐0]

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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 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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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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Olympic scenes: Pistol grip covered in stickers

Photo shows the grip of an air pistol used by Japan's Akiko Sato during the women's shooting on Aug. 7, 2016, that is covered in stickers from international competitions as well as of the Musubi-maru mascot of the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo