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Ohanna (Japanese woman) portrait, 1873

Sepia photograph with colored-in blue and red details representing a Japanese woman sitting on the floor next to a box with a tea set and holding a musical instrument. She is photographed with a folding screen behind her showing birds and plants.

A smiling Japanese woman, Ohanna (or Ohana), sits with her legs beneath her on a mat against a folding screen painted with scenes from nature. She holds a shamisen in her hands. She wears a striped kimono and has two rings on her left hand. Portions of her clothing and hair ornaments have been hand tinted in shades of purple, red, blue and yellow. Next to her on the floor is a wooden hibachi with an iron teakettle and a ceramic teapot. | Inscription: "Ohanna san" in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. | Notes: Silk painting - "Night rain at Karasaki" - on reverse (1008.002/001.001-003 #27). 1872-73 is given in an inscription elsewhere in the album.

Archives Number: 1008.2/1.1-3#10

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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. Group Portraits (1008.002/001.001-003), (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

NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 27888

Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers (1008)

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

2021-11-04

01/01/1873 - 12/30/1873

Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Albums, Albums Related to East Asia. (1008.002/001.001)

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