Topic: clothing and dress

[Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, ...

Coronation 1965, Queen accepts traditional white scarf

Title from item. Slide used for the presentation: "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: http://www.loc.gov/tod... more

[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikk...

[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, f...

[King and Queen of Sikkim and their daughter Hope Leezum watch birthda...

Hierbey sollman spürn und w[...]ercken ; ... / HNFecit ; B.C. excu.

Allegory of vanity (presumptuousness) showing five demon-like figures confronting a man and a woman wearing elaborate collars. Title from item. Andresen, 12 Hollstein, 13 Exhibited: Painted Prints : Renaissance... more

[How the chief ladies of the town of Dasamonquepeio dress and carry th...

Full-length, front and back portraits of a Native woman of Dasamonquepeio showing manner of dress and way of carrying a child on her back; view of river and landscape in the background.

[An old man in his winter clothes] / T.B.

An aged Native man from Pomeiock, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing winter garment; landscape scene with village in the background.

[A popular beauty]

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, facing left. Title devised by Library staff. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[The spear dance]

Print shows a male dancer during a spear dance.

[Two lovers under an umbrella]

Print shows a man and a woman, full-length, walking beneath an umbrella.

Nami ni goshoguruma moyō no tachi bijin

Print shows a courtesan, facing left, wearing a waterwheel and waves pattern kimono.

[Reading a love letter]

Print shows a young woman reading a love letter.

Taka no ha moyō no tachi bijin

Print shows a courtesan wearing feather-pattern kimono.

[Preparing for the first battle]

Print shows a young woman arranging a warrior's hair prior to entering a battle. Title devised by Library staff. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[A popular hero, Shibaraku]

Print shows an actor as a samurai making a grand entrance at the "Shibaraku" moment on the kabuki stage.

[A beauty with an umbrella]

Print shows the actor Nakamura Sanya as a young woman standing beneath an umbrella, wearing a head covering and geta.

Yūjo chōkarō

Print shows a courtesan portraying the Chinese sage Zhang Guo Lao Chōkarō releasing his magic horse from a small gourd.

Kage e

Print shows two geishas entertaining a man, one is making shadow puppets and the other is playing a shamisen.

Toragaishi

Print shows a woman standing and a warrior attempting to pick up a large rock.

Haha to ko

Print shows a mother and her son with an open book; the boy is resting on top of the book, preventing his mother from reading it.

Shuen

Print shows two geishas and a man eating; there is a shamisen next to one of the women, the other is holding a tea or sake pot.

Sannin no yakusha

Print shows three actors, two playing shamisens and one with a teapot or sake pot, two are in the roles of women.

Ichikawa danjūrō [to] ichikawa monnosuke

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke as a courtesan and Ichikawa Danjūrō as a merchant.

[Soga Goro making puns]

Print shows one of the Soga brothers, Goro (Tokimune), dressed as a warrior surrounded by text containing puns.

[Moon viewing at Shinagawa]

Print shows men and women eating and entertaining while looking at the full moon at a large building or pavilion in Shinagawa, on the Tōkaidō Road.

[Rivals contending for a beauty]

Print shows two men arguing with each other over which one has the right to claim the affections of the woman seated behind them.

San kiyomizu komachi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nana komachi : Seven Komachi. Format: Hosoban Urushi-e. Forms part of: Japanese print... more

[A willing letter writer]

Print shows a man with two women, one of the women is writing a letter.

Kyō

Print shows a man and a woman playing a game, possibly go, on a kimono with a ruled pattern.

[Oman the seller of cosmetics]

Print shows Oman, a peddler selling cosmetics, with a large box strapped to his/her back. Title devised by Library staff. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[The beauty Osome]

Print shows Osome, a tragic beauty, full-length, standing, looking at a book.

Standing / B. Dandridge pinx ; L.P. Boitard, sculp.

Full-length image of man standing. Reference copy also available in LOT 4638-E. Illus. in: Nivelon, F. / The rudiments of genteel behavior, 1737, pl. 1 following signature leaf "E".

[Beauties of the three capitals triptych]

Print shows three courtesans, full-length, standing.

[Hanging poems on a cherry tree]

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, hanging poems in a blossoming cherry tree.

[Playing with a puppet]

Print shows a woman, standing, holding a puppet of a woman above her head.

[Beauty holding a book]

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing in front of an illustrated screen, holding a book.

[Two lovers in a boat]

Print shows a man and a woman in a boat; the man is holding a small drum and appears to be serenading the woman beneath the moon.

[The black knight]

Print shows a man, possibly an actor or a samurai, with sword, holding an umbrella, wearing a black kimono and geta.

[Two girls whispering]

Print shows a woman, sitting, embracing a young girl, and whispering to her.

[Passing a love letter]

Print shows a young man discretely passing a love letter from beneath the folds of his kimono.

Marriage à la mode--the toilette scene / invented painted & published ...

Several persons engaged in conversation in a lady's boudoir.

Kaki mogi[tori?]

Print shows a young man holding a young woman on his shoulders as she reaches to pick persimmons from a branch above them.

Migi

Print shows a man and a woman, wearing geta, walking beneath an umbrella next to a blossoming tree.

[Warrior or actor with long hair and bracelets around wrist and ankles...

Chatsumi

Print shows two women with short benches and small baskets, and a young boy; one of the women is picking tea leaves, the other has finished her task and is departing with the young boy.

[Two musicians seated on a bench, wearing geta]

Print shows a man and a woman sitting on a bench, playing a shamisen.

[Costumes of Chile]

Drawing shows six Chilean clothing styles identified as: 1. costume du peuple; 2. costume de campagne; 3. Indien manœuvre; 4. costume d'èglise; 5. costume de promenade; and 6. officier de hussards.

Onoe kikugorō [to] nakamura kiyosaburō

Print shows actors Onoe Kikugorō and Nakamura Kiyosaburō, wearing geta, portraying street musicians.

Ane otōto no isakai

Print shows a young woman and a young boy playing with toys.

Ichikawa danjūrō no sukeroku

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Ichimura kamezō nakamura kiyoza[sa?]

Print shows the actors Ichimura Kamezō and Nakamura Kiyoza, one portraying a female role. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hoso... more

Mari arasoi

Print shows two girls in a courtyard, chasing a ball.

[The harmonic couple]

Print shows a man and a woman sitting on a bench, playing a flute, beneath a blossoming tree.

[Beauties from Fukagawa]

Print shows several women and various architectural elements at the Fukagawa station on the Tōkaidō Road.

Onoe kikugorō no sanjō kokaji munechika

Print shows Onoe Kikugorō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left.

Nakamura matsue

Print shows the actor Nakmura Matsue in a female role.

[Musume Dojoji, a popular kabuki dancer]

Print shows a dancer from the popular Musume Dojoji dance drama of the kabuki theater.

Jakuren Hōshi

Print shows two figures, possibly the two lovers from the poem "Loving two people equally" based on the legend of Unai Otome; one lying on the floor reading (poetry?) is wearing a kimono with oragami cranes dep... more

Ichimura kamezo no kyo no jirō

Print shows the actor Ichimura Kamezo performing a fan dance.

Yukidama o tsukuru musume

Print shows a young woman, wearing high geta and a kimono with hat designs, rolling a large snowball.

Ichimura uzaemon no osugi

Print shows a young woman, Osugi, holding a tobacco pipe and tray of tobacco.

Kotsuzumi o utsu wakashū

Print shows a young man practicing on a tsuzumi; wall hanging in the background shows the figure of a man, possibly Hotei, one of the seven lucky gods.

Onoe matsusuke no odamakihime to ōtani hiroji no okabe no ro

Arashi hinaji no jōrurigozen

Print shows actor Arashi Hinaji in an onnagata role as the princess Jōruri Gozen, standing on a veranda, holding a lantern.

Segawa kikunojō [to] ichikawa yaozō

Print shows the actors Segawa Kikunojo and Ichikawa Yaozo, one portraying a female role.

Fūryū yastushi hagoromo

Print shows a woman (possibly the Tennin, an aerial spirit or celestial dancer) standing on a man in order to remove her feather-mantle (hagoromo or heavenly kimono) which is hanging on the branches of a tree; ... more

Chōsui

Print shows two women struggling over a poem or letter scroll.

Segawa yūjirō to onoe tamizō

Print shows the actors Segawa Yūjirō and Onoe Tamizō, one in the role of a woman, the other a man kneeling in front of a hibachi.

[Two women gathering lotus blossoms]

Yatsushi kikujidō

Print shows a woman picking chrysanthemums along the banks of a stream.

Hagi no tamagawa

Print shows two woman or a man and a woman embracing on the banks of a river.

Ryōgokubashi no sekisho

Print shows two women on the Ryōgoku Bridge at sunset.

Okumura masanobu no kakejiku o miru yūjo

Print shows an interior scene with two courtesans admiring a screen painting of an actor or beautiful woman by the painter Okumura Masanobu.

Engawa no wakashū to onna

Print shows a young man and a young woman standing on a veranda, with a rooster and a hen standing nearby.

Yuki

Print shows a courtesan, walking in the snow with two young female attendants carrying a parasol, and a male servant carrying a large parasol; the man appears to be barefoot, the women are wearing geta.

Momiji daki

Print shows two women and a man warming tea and making fans during an autumn rain storm.

Musume o seotte kawa o wataru hotei

Print shows Hotei, one of the seven lucky Buddhist gods, carrying a young woman across a river; a child attendant carries Hotei's bag.

Hon yomu musume tachi

Ueno no banshō

Print shows a woman with two young sons standing on a veranda or balcony of a temple.

Engawa no mushikiki

Print shows a woman sitting on a veranda listening to a cricket in a cage.

Yatsushi kusazuribiki

Print shows a man sitting on the floor clutching a long piece of cloth held by the woman standing next to him; she has her hand on a hairpin, perhaps getting ready to remove it. A screen painting behind the wom... more

Uzuki

Print shows a man serenading, holding a flute in one hand, standing outside a window through which two women are visible.

Segawa kikunojō

Print shows an actor portraying a woman holding an umbrella.

The times - taken from an original character which appear'd at the mas...

Print shows the figure of a man draped with ribbons labeled with the issues of the times.

The Female frizzler

British cartoon showing woman, seated on huge hairdo of another woman, as she works on the hairdo.

Satsuki ame

Print shows two women walking beneath an umbrella and a young woman about to open an umbrella as it has started to rain.

Mitate rajōmon

Print shows a man departing, holding a closed umbrella over his right shoulder, looking back at a young woman standing on a veranda, leaning against a post.

Kannazuki

Print shows a man sitting on a veranda, reading, an incense urn next to him, and a woman standing at a door looking over his shoulder.

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, facing left, standing on snow-covered veranda.

Minazuki

Print shows a man sitting on a bench at a teahouse overlooking the Sumida River, the waitress standing before him holding a fan and teapot, is looking over her left shoulder.

Takema no uguisu

Print shows two young women on a country path gathering plants and listening to a warbler in bamboo.

Girl reading a letter dessiné par J.B. Huet peintre du Roi par son trè...

Print shows a young girl, half-length portrait, in right profile, reading a letter; in a framed medallion with leafy boughs at top. Title devised by Library staff. Printed at bottom: Dédié a Me. Huet. Printed o... more

Dai nijūichi zu

Print shows a woman using a long (opium?) pipe to beat a man who has been spying on her.

Yamashita kinsaku no senjichauri omiya

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Risshun

Print shows a man sitting on a veranda, turned to look at a woman standing in a doorway.

Sanogawa ichimatsu

Print shows the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, half-length portrait, portraying a female, facing left in fan-shaped frame.

Shinobu koi

Print shows a man looking from behind a sliding screen at a woman carrying a lantern up stairs and looking back at the man.

Ukie shin-yoshiwara sōjimai no zu

Print shows many women gathering together, some still entertaining men, in a large open hall in the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo.

Jūsan

Print shows a woman offering a lighted pipe to her lover reclining on a bed nearby, also, from an adjoining room, a man (probably her husband) peeking from beneath a small table with a portion of a bird (rooster?) on it.