Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: A Corean singer in dancing dress
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Postcards/Ephemera
Description: Courtesans frequently danced and sang during festivities at the royal court. A dancer is shown wearing a 'hwagwan' (a small crown decorated with flowers and jewels), wth a long jacket over a skirt. She covers her hands with colorful cloth. This is a (hand-colored) photograph taken in a studio setting, produced for mass production. Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 150.
Inscription/Marks: Inscription imprinted on image: 'A Corean singer in dancing dress'
Identifier: 1260.74.12.02
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xs4
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Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: A Corean court singer
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Postcards/Ephemera
Description: Courtesans frequently danced and sang during festivities at the royal court. This singer/dancer is shown wearing a 'hwagwan' (a small crown decorated with flowers and jewels), and a long, well-tailored silk jacket over a skirt. Her hands grasp colorful pieces of cloth which are enhance her performance as she dances. This is a (hand-colored) photograph taken in a studio setting, produced for mass production. Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 150.
Inscription/Marks: Inscription imprinted on image: 'A Corean court singer'
Identifier: 1260.74.12.04
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xs6
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Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: Gesang School (i.e. kisaeng school)
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: North Korea; Pyongyang
Type: Postcards/Ephemera
Description: Korean kisaengs, or singing girls, dressed up for singing and dancing. Korean kisaeng is special women's occupation that exists for helping parties enjoyable by singing and dancing. Their social position was among the lowest in the traditional Korean class system. Their daughters also became kisaengs and their sons became slaves. The art of entertaining of the kisaeng is analogous to Japanese geisha. These professional entertainers were highly trained in the arts of poetry, music, dance, and other forms of social or artistic diversion. The picture is somewhat curious. It was taken in front of a modern, western-style brick building, with a very peculiar Korean screen as the backdrop.
Inscription/Marks: Inscription in characters imprinted on image; pencilled inscription on verso: 'Gesang School'
Identifier: 1260.74.09.02
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xr9
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Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: Corean beauty
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Postcards/Ephemera
Description: A young 'kisaeng' (singing girl) in full Korean traditional dress. She has a typical married women's hair style (jjok), which is called chignon with a hairpin (the 'pinyo'). Korean 'kisaeng', or singing girls, dressed up for singing and dancing. A 'Kisaeng's' social position was among the lowest in the traditional Korean class system. Their daughters also became 'kisaeng' and their sons became slaves. The art of entertaining of the 'kisaeng' is analogous to the Japanese geisha. These professional entertainers were highly trained in the arts of poetry, music, dance, and other forms of social or artistic diversion. eIn the early 1900s, 'kisaeng' did their hair up in a 'chignon' and wear shorter jackets (about 7-8 inches) than ordinary women - The skirts were cut with a full slit at the back and were fixed to the right side, while upper class women's skirt were fixed to the left.e Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 140.
Inscription/Marks: Pencilled inscription on verso of image: 'Corean beauty'
Identifier: 1260.74.12.06
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xs8
(mochi thinking)
i think these postcards were printed in Japan after 1910. since the techniques of printed with color picture was in japan.in meiji era,ukiyoe painters lost their job while introduced camera from western world,then they became to work in craft center to paint up the color on black and white photography.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moreska/6047681915/
Vintage postcard, "Kisaeng academy" in old P'yongyang (North Korea)
Academy for kisaeng (usually described as being similar to the "geisha") in P'yongyang; the Japanese name for "P'yongyang" was "Heijo"
Kisaeng for performance
한국어: 공연 의상을 입고 있는 기생
Kisaeng to perform a sword dance
한국어: 검무를 추는 기생
Kisaeng to perform a geommu
from wikimedia
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