[Portrait of a Japanese dancer and musician.] Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, taken against a painted backdrop, of two young Japanese women, one standing in a dance attitude, the other seated on the floor accompanying her on a stringed instrument.
Numbered 614 in the negative. Studio portrait of two geishas, one kneeling playing a stringed instrument, the other dancing, with a fan held aloft in her right hand. The two are posed in front of backdrop painted with a traditional scene.
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 483 in the negative. Studio portrait of a Japanese woman, seated with a stringed instrument (a kind of zither) resting on the floor in front of her.