Description:

A digital album of over 100 old postcards, prints and photos of Japanese geisha girls. Charming and fascinating portraits, many in early hand-tinted color, of these beautiful, traditional oriental hostesses in colorful kimonos. The role of the geisha is often misunderstood. Erotic, risqué, some semi-nude. Tea ceremonies, bathing scenes, tending gardens, playing music, smoking opium.... as well as pictures hinting at these women's role as high-class courtesans or prostitutes. Haunting images from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, depicting a pre-industrial lifestyle that has largely disappeared in modern Japan. (A PDF-format, illustrated ebook / slideshow for Acrobat Reader. Includes optional rolling slideshow functionality and random transition effects between images.) A great alternative to a screensaver! **One of our best-sellers. Second edition revised and extended, Februrary 2007. **