Yokohama, Japan. Dancing Girls Out Walking in the Park
Collection: Asia
Title
Yokohama, Japan. Dancing Girls Out Walking in the Park
Subject
Geishas
Description
On verso:
No. 269. YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. DANCING GIRLS OUT WALKING IN THE PARK.
Belonging to the great Mongolian family of peoples, the Japanese are generally of a yellow color, although the people of rank usually have fair complexions, and ladies who do not expose themselves to the sun sometimes have perfectly white skins and blooming cheeks. The women are well formed and very graceful. The Japanese are distinguished by perseverance, courage, frankness, industry, temperance, natural politeness and courteous hospitality. Woman occupies a favored position, as compared with her sisters of other Asiatic races. Polygamy is forbidden, but a husband may divorce his wife without giving a reason, if he provides for her support. A wife, however, cannot demand to be separated from her husband.
The geishas or dancing girls, who furnish entertainment in tea houses and at social gatherings, are destined to their trade from infancy, and being generally well educated, are often selected as wives by respectable men.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
269
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Yokohama, Japan. Dancing Girls Out Walking in the Park,” Digital Canton, accessed April 16, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/571.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
Yokohama, Japan. Dancing Girls Out Walking in the Park
Subject
Geishas
Description
On verso:
No. 269. YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. DANCING GIRLS OUT WALKING IN THE PARK.
Belonging to the great Mongolian family of peoples, the Japanese are generally of a yellow color, although the people of rank usually have fair complexions, and ladies who do not expose themselves to the sun sometimes have perfectly white skins and blooming cheeks. The women are well formed and very graceful. The Japanese are distinguished by perseverance, courage, frankness, industry, temperance, natural politeness and courteous hospitality. Woman occupies a favored position, as compared with her sisters of other Asiatic races. Polygamy is forbidden, but a husband may divorce his wife without giving a reason, if he provides for her support. A wife, however, cannot demand to be separated from her husband.
The geishas or dancing girls, who furnish entertainment in tea houses and at social gatherings, are destined to their trade from infancy, and being generally well educated, are often selected as wives by respectable men.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
269
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Yokohama, Japan. Dancing Girls Out Walking in the Park,” Digital Canton, accessed April 16, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/571.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches