100910-0012 - Geisha Dancing

Three oshaku (御酌, apprentice geisha) performing a dance.

This image has been published in ‘Ayame San, A Japanese Romance of the 23rd Year of Meiji (1890)’ (James Murdoch, W. K. Burton, Kazumasa Ogawa, ca. 1892); ‘Sights and Scenes on The Tokaido’ (Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892); “Letters from the Land of the Rising Sun” (Henry Spencer Palmer, 1894); ‘Photographs of Japanese Customs and Manners’ (Kazumasa Ogawa, 1898).