A bride

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]

A woman wearing a shawl

A woman wearing a shawl

A woman with her hair is arranged in bunkin-takashimada style is wearing a shawl over her shoulders. The shawl is intended for use over the shoulders, not over the entire kimono. But women accepted it as a fashionable foreign import and often wore it this way.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number71‐65‐0]

Women playing with hens

Women playing with hens

Women in thickly lined winter kimono are feeding bantams. This photograph captures the appearance of well dressed women with hair arranged in the takashimada style.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐30‐0]

Women making tea

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]

Woman hanging kakejiku,a hanging scroll

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]