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8 Responses to “Old Japan era’s bathing beauties”

1. cole on September 21st, 2008 at 9:06pm

   Pretty awsome pictures. Never seen too many vintage photos of Japanese Geishas. And I’ve NEVER seen bathing suit pictures of them, lol.

2. bb on September 22nd, 2008 at 3:49am

   they look really young…like kids…

3. cole on September 22nd, 2008 at 8:22am

   Yeah, Japanese women are such tiny little beings and some of them do have child-like looks. I’ts just the way some of them look…..Genetics

4. kyon on September 22nd, 2008 at 2:48pm

   yeah, they look really young.

5. Yein Jee on September 22nd, 2008 at 3:24pm

   Well, it’s a century old era; lots of the cultures and lifestyle were different back then, the ladies in the photo could be having child-look as cole mentioned, but could be really young on the other hand… back in the old days it’s not uncommon for teenagers to get married at young age (13, 14 etc) and it’s certainly not surprising that they were involved in things and jobs that look a bit odd these days.

6. Jenny on September 23rd, 2008 at 7:53pm

   I love old photos like this.
   Well in those days girls would become apprentice geisha when they were about 11-12 and full fledged geisha when they were about 16-17.
   For more info about geisha there is a great website:
   http://www.immortalgeisha.com

7. cole on September 24th, 2008 at 2:40pm

   The girl holding the Lobster by it’s antennai really caught my eye, lol. That sort of humorous pose during a time when photo subjects took a more serious tone just seems ahead of it’s time and amusingly out of place.

   That lobster was almost as big as she was. :)

8. Yein Jee on September 24th, 2008 at 5:21pm

   that… lobster… is… small… but the pic is cute :)

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