Jun 21, 2019
Maiko (back row) and Geiko (musicians) from Niigata, 1920′s.
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Maiko (back row) and Geiko (musicians) from Niigata, 1920′s.
Furumachi/Niigata Maiko 1920′s. Src.
Unnamed Maiko from Ôsaka, 1908. Src. Her Obi is tied in a ya giccha musubi.
Maiko Yachiyo from Ôsaka in 1900. Src There’s a kikkô (tortoise shell) motif on her obi and her hairdo resembles Tsubushi Shimada (today, it’s a hairstyle for Geiko but who knows how it was in the past?).
Different sorts of obi knots worn by Maiko and Hangyoku: 1. Darari musubi worn by a Nara Maiko: Standard obi associated with Maiko. Trademark of the Kyoto Maiko, but also worn in Nara, Gifu and Ôsaka. 2. Han-Darari worn by an Akita Maiko: like the Darari musubi, but half length. Worn by Minarai (one stage before becoming a Maiko) in Kyoto. Also worn in Fukuoka 3. Yanoji musubi worn by a Niigata Furisode-san: the standard knot for Hangyoku. Also called Kôken musubi 4. Ya giccha Musubi (やぎっちゃ), worn by an Ôsaka Maiko: most popular in Ôsaka, nowadays worn by Gifu Maiko. 5. Fukura suzume musubi, worn by Tokushima Maiko. Apart from being worn by Maiko, it is a popular knot to wear with Furisode.
Geiko/Geisha/Geigi have less variety. If you’re interested in the different obi knots they wear, check out my previous blog post.
EDIT thank you to u/queenblackacid for featuring my post on reddit!
Osaka Maiko 1900. Source
Five Osaka Maiko 1910 Five maiko (apprentice geisha) from Osaka wearing kuromontsuki (black crested kimonos). In the centre is Chiyoha, who was shortly to become famous as Teruha, when she relocated to Tokyo in the wake of a scandal.The characters they are holding appear to be a congratulatory message for a 30th anniversary of some kind. Motifs I can make out: left Maiko has a crane and sea shells, second from left and the central Maiko probably have ivy, second from left: Chrysantemum?, right: sea shells with Genjimon
Kasuri Kimono 1903 A maiko (apprentice geisha) from Osaka wearing a spectacular kasuri kimono. Kasuri is a traditional Japanese folk textile, where the fibers are pre-dyed to create specific patterns during the weaving process, the resulting patterns have distinctive blurred edges.
Also, note her very old-school pocchiri which is completely made of metal. This is the second example I see of this. For more infos, see here