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Japan - Music Teacher playing a Shamisen

Japan - Music Teacher playing a Shamisen (or Samisen). The alcove behind her is called the tokonoma and is the pride of the house Date: 1932

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Women making tea

A young woman serves tea to two women sitting on cushions with their legs folded. A large dish with sweets is placed in front of them, a scroll hangs in the tokonoma, and flowers are arranged. A screen stands to the back of the woman serving tea.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐6‐0]

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Women and a girl playing go

Two women are playing a game of go near a tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. Another woman is watching the game, holding tea cups on a tray. Sweets and a tobacco tray are placed in the foreground.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number95‐21‐0]

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Women playing go

Two women facing each other are about to start a game of go in front of a tokonoma (alcove). Tea and sweets are placed in the foreground, and the white and black pebbles used in the game are visible. The dried flowers placed on a table in front of the tokonoma present an artificial scene.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐50‐0]

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Women greeting each other

A young woman in a furisode kimono offers a greeting to her host in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a byobu screen placed to the right. A gift box tied with a mizuhiki (red and white string) is presented. The young woman is expressing thanks for something with this greeting.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐31‐0]

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A woman having tea

A woman with a tea tray sits in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. The woman is dressed in kimono with the sash tied. She appears to be traveling. This may be a room in an inn.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number76‐13‐0]

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Tokonoma (an alcove)

Tokonoma (an alcove)==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Women at a brothel

A two-story residence has a garden with a fountain. The room beyond the porch on which the women are sitting, is a zashiki room with a tokonoma alcove. People other than courtesans are visible on the left and in the far corner of the garden on the right.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐29‐0]

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Women greeting each other

Two women are exchanging greetings in front of a tokonoma (alcove) in the main room of a large house. This portrays a very polite greeting by a woman with hair arranged in shimada style bowing deeply after being served a cup of tea. Two braziers have been placed in the room, indicating that another visitor preceded this woman.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐16‐0]

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Greetings during a visit

The guest on the left is presenting a gift to her host in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. This is a depiction of Japanese customs produced in a studio for sale to foreigners.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐153‐0]

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Greetings in an ozashiki

New Year's decorations are visible in the tokonoma (alcove) in the centre. Cranes are painted on a hanging scroll. Two women clad in kimono are exchanging a polite New Year's greeting. Women's New Year was celebrated on January 9th (not 1st). Women visited people's houses to offer New Year's greeting within the period of the New Year holiday. The English title reads JAPONIS ROOM.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐129‐0]

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Women greeting each other

A woman exchanges a greeting after presenting a gift of sweets. Arranged flowers have been placed on the left, while a drum and tea kettle are visible near the tokonoma (alcove) with a hanging scroll. This greeting seems to be part of a lesson on various aspects of etiquette.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number50‐14‐0]

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Practicing traditional songs

A girl receives a singing lesson from a master who is accompanying her on a shamisen (three-stringed lute) in front of a tokonoma alcove decorated with flowers. Taking lessons of this sort was customary for the children of well-to-do families.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐1‐0]

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Women carrying dishes

A woman is shown standing up with a portable meal table while another woman is about to stand up. The meal set on the table consists of miso soup, three kinds of vegetables and cooked rice. A hanging scroll and flowers arranged in a pot are visible in the tokonoma alcove behind them, and a gekkin lute is placed against the wall. This type of room is called an ozashiki.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐37‐0]

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Women enjoying the cool evening

The sudare bamboo screens are rolled up to the eaves of the house, and removable doors and paper screens are put away to allow entry to the cool air. The older woman in front of the tokonoma alcove is holding a large fan. A shamisen lute is lying by the woman sitting with her back to the camera.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐20‐0]

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Women relaxing with tea and tobacco

Two women are relaxing together but are not engaged in a conversation. A byobu screen is standing next to the tokonoma (alcove) and a brazier is in front of them. The combination of a fan (for summer) and a tea kettle on a brazier (for winter) is rather unnatural.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐8‐0]

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A woman enjoying tea at a tokonoma

A woman with hair arranged in momoware or peach style is turning the pages of a book in front of a tea set, suggesting noble birth. The fence in the garden and the atmosphere of the room with an alcove also exude a sense of opulence.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐9‐0]

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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]

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A room with ranma (lattice wells for air and lighting)

The interior of a rich business man's residence in Japanese style. The spacious living room with a veranda is at the center of the photo. The tokonoma has a scroll hanging, and a flower picked from a nearby garden is arranged in the vase.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐8‐0]

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Relaxing women

Six women face the camera in a room with a tokonoma. The woman on the far left holds a fan on her knees, and the second from the left holds a standing shamisen. Dishes line up in front of them and a woman holds a sake bottle in one hand.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:[R. Stillfried], (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number27‐29‐0]

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TOLANPU,A CARD GAME

Four women play cards in a living room with a tokonoma. Cards are lined up in front of the women. There is a brazier in front of each of the pairs.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number25‐43‐0]

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A woman playing the koto

A woman plays a koto in the living room. The room has a tokonoma and a scroll.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number23‐2‐0]

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Mother dressing a child in her best clothes

A dramatized photo of a mother dressing her daughter, who appears to be about 7 years old. It could be for the shichi-go-san (festival for children of three, five and seven years of age). By them are a tray with a tea set and a square brazier. A shamisen hangs on the wall, a biwa leans against the wall, and a scroll hangs with flowers arranged in the tokonoma. A dramatization of Japan.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐7‐0]

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Woman resting in chanoma,a living room

A woman with her obi (sash) untied and left knee up holds a fan in her right hand and sits facing sideways. There is a tobacco tray and tobacco pipe, a tray with a tea pot and tea cup and a tray with a big dish placed in front of her. A scroll hangs in the tokonoma in the rear, and a decorative shelf is placed in front.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐3‐0]

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Girls arranging flowers

Two women dressed in kimono and hair done in Japanese style arrange flowers in a room. A scroll hangs in the tokonoma, and flowers are placed in vase.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number13‐11‐0]

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Greetings in an ozashiki (a guest room)

Guests are welcomed in a room with a tokonoma alcove, and greetings are exchanged. This is a dramatized photo of the Japanese custom of serving tea and bowing deeply.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐46‐0]