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Oiran
Group of Oiran, high class escorts, Japan, circa 1880s
Oiran, high class prostitutes, Japan, circa 1880s
1860's Japan - a woman
Oiran, high class prostitute, Japan
c. 1880s Japan - oiran or high class prostitute attendants
c. 1880s Japan - Oiran, high class prostitute
c. 1880s Japan - group of Oiran, high class prostitutes
Oiran, high class Japanese courtesan, prostitute, Japan
Oiran on Parade
Oiran and attendants (high class courtesan) Japan
Group of Oiran, Japan
Parade of Oiran (courtesans), Japan
Oiran, high class prostitutes, Japan
Oiran parading beneath cherry blossoms
Oiran zu
A courtesan fixing her hair
Oiran
Oiran beneath cherry blossoms
Oiran high class courtesan
Oiran parading in snow at the New Year
fine arts, Japan, graphic, Sitting oiran, early
Courtesans relaxing by writing a letter and playing shamisen
Three samurai listen to a courtesan play the shamisen
Courtesans playing a game of karuta (cards) with a customer
Courtesans playing shamisen and dancing in
Courtesan playing a shamisen for customers
Courtesans playing shamisen to entertain a
Oiran courtesan fixing her hair while a samurai watches
Courtesans and a street entertainer with performing
Samurai and servant, courtesans and merchants
Samurai in a sedan chair, courtesans and tradesmen
Samurai and tradesmen on the Daimon-zaka road
A two-story teahouse in Kyomachi Yoshiwara pleasure quarters
Maids helping courtesans with their kimono, hair and obi
Courtesans painting a large sumi-e (ink-wash painting)
Courtesan and customer sharing a tobacco pipe
Courtesans dancing and playing sugoroku (Japanese
Oiran courtesans dancing before a large folding screen
Miasma (Sawaki no tei), with three courtesans
Japanese god Daikokuten with courtesan and
Kabuki actor Nakamura Kichibei with broom
Samurai receiving a letter from a courtesan
Daimonguchi entrance gate and Nakanocho in
Courtesan treating a woman with moxibustion
Samurai crossing the river on the way to Yoshiwara
Two kamuro maids try to drag two samurai to
Oiran courtesan watching a trial of strength
Courtesans relaxing by writing poetry and
Courtesans relaxing by writing poetry in the
Three courtesans in kimono following a customer
Courtesans relaxing by reading books in front
Customer and courtesan with maid being led by a servant
Courtesan entertaining a customer by playing
Oiran courtesans and maid walking in the pleasure quarters
Oiran courtesan having her hair treated with
Samurai customer with kamuro walking past
Two men and a kamuro walking past a teahouse
An oiran courtesan plying two shojo with sake
The artist Masanobu Okumura painting a folding screen
Japanese oiran and samurai
Japanese Geishas, c. 1910. Geishas, were female
An oiran with a fan looking at her kamuro
An Oiran & her two kamuro near a fence & a cherry tree
The courtesan Chojiya Karakoto
Oiran holding a lantern over two puppies
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