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In 1878, just 19 years after Japan opened it first ports to the world, and a mere ten years after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, an adventurous 47-year old woman from the UK set out to explore the interior of Japan. The country was virtually unknown to Westerners, and a woman traveling only with a guide seemed outrageous. Everybody advised her not to, but she went anyway and wrote this unique and vivid journal of what she saw and experienced.
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Geisha: Women of Japan's Flower & Willow World
Over 500 beautiful photographs and postcards, mostly of between 1900 and 1940, take you back to Japan’s now-extinct licensed pleasure districts.
In Geisha: Women of Japan’s Flower & Willow World, Skinner and Martin have seamlessly combined a text that is a joy to read with an outrageous large number of photographs, showing geisha as well as the different kinds of high-class prostitutes.
The historical descriptions and anecdotes bring much needed context to these photos. Explanations are, for example, given for the kimono, poses and accouterments pictured in this book and several misconceptions are addressed.
The design and lay-out are very rich and makes the photos look even more beautiful. Geisha: Women of Japan’s Flower & Willow World was clearly a work of love for Skinner and Martin. You will keep opening up this book again and again. A beauty!
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