Haunting Postcards of Apprentice Geishas
Misconceptions about the nature of the geisha profession have been allowed to spread throughout history largely unchecked, and the geisha world has remained to this day a very private, elite world, shrouded in mystery. These vintage postcards of ‘bathing’ geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha) taken from the Meiji (1868–1912) and Taisho (1912–1926) eras of old [...]