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Ochiku (Japanese woman and child) portrait, circa 1872

Black-and-white photograph with an inscription representing two Japanese women standing against a wall with a calligraphic inscription on it

Japanese courtesan, Ochiku, poses with her young attendant on a European carpet against a plain backdrop. White placard with nine Japanese characters is on the wall behind them. Ochiku wears light colored kimono with wistaria design and darker colored flowing robe (outer kimono). Beneath robe is a dark reversed obi with a design of open fans. Many ornamental pins are in her hair. Attendant has her hair in a style akin to a reversed topknot most commonly seen on samurai and wears a hakama [divided skirt] over a kimono with a geometric design. She wears wooden geta on her feet. | Inscription: "Ochiku san" in ink in block letters by Charles Longfellow. (On image.) "Okiko san [crossed out] Nagasaki" above image.

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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)

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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

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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