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Imamurasaki (Japanese woman and girl) portrait, circa 1872
Black-and-white photograph representing a Japanese woman in kimono and a child, both sitting against a background of a screen with a hanging kimono.
A courtesan, Imamurasaki, is posed with her young attendant against a folding screen. She wears multiple silk kimono draped to show the various layers. Her attendant, a young girl wearing thick white make-up, sits at her feet. She wears several ornaments and silk ribbons in her hair. Imamurasaki and her attendant grasp opposite ends of a long cylindrical object. A brightly designed kimono is draped over the folding screen. | Inscription: "Imamura Saki the swell Jouro [courtesan] of Yedo" in ink in cursive by Charles Longfellow. (Above image.) | Notes: Yedo, or Edo, is a former name for Tokyo.
Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-2#03
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Charles Appleton Longfellow Photographs (1008.002), (LONG-Subcollection)
, Photograph Albums (1008.002/001), (LONG-SeriesName)
, East Asia (1008.002/001.001), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Longfellow - san's album, Scrapbook of Portraits (1008.002/001.001-002), (LONG-FileUnitName)
, Photograph Albums (1008.002/001), (LONG-SeriesName)
, East Asia (1008.002/001.001), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Longfellow - san's album, Scrapbook of Portraits (1008.002/001.001-002), (LONG-FileUnitName)
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 27888
Title: Finding Aid to the Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844-1893) Papers, 1842-1996 (bulk dates: 1862-1891)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#CAL
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#CAL
2016-01-30
01/01/1872 - 12/30/1872
Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Albums, Albums Related to East Asia. (1008.002/001.001)
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Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
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