Koto Collection

c. 1880s Japan - geishas with musical instrments

c. 1880s Japan - geishas playing musical instruments
c.1880s Japan - geishas playing the shamisen and koto musical instruments

Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, Japan
Young woman playing a koto stringed musical instrument, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Wife of the elite samurai class relaxing
Wife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink

Japanese wedding ceremony

Geishas playing the shamisen and koto, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

The koto, a Japanese musical instrument
A Japanese musician plays the KOTO, a harp-like instrument played horizontally on the floor

A young girl listens to two Koto Players by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Date: late 18th century

Japanese women - Koto player and woman reading
Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional 13-stringed Koto whilst another kneels by her reading/writing table. Both wear decorated silk kimonos. Date: circa 1907

A Japanese Koto player. A Koto is a type of Zither with 13 strings, played by plucking the strings with ivory plectrums attached to the fingers. Date: 1932

Musician and koto, Japan

Blind Japanese musicans, 1864
Three blind Japanese musicians. One plays a koto, the other a samisen. Date: 1864

Woman playing a Koto, Japan
Woman playing a Koto, the national musical instrument of Japan, usually with 13 strings. Date: circa 1890s

Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional Koto
Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional 13-stringed Koto. Date: circa 1907

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San goes to sleep - Goodnight! Date: circa 1905

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San has a smoke before bed
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San has a smoke and thinks of her soldier Lo, whilst her miad prepares her bed. Date: circa 1905

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San dresses to go out visiting Date: circa 1905

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San and friend in the garden
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San and her friend in the garden Date: circa 1905

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San and maid at suppertime
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San talks to her maid while partaking of supper. Date: circa 1905

O-Hana-San provides music for her friend O-koto-san
Japanese woman O-Hana-San provides music for her friend O-koto-san with a Shamisen Date: circa 1910

Japanese woman O-koto-san takes tea with her friend O-Hana-San. Date: circa 1910

Japanese woman O-koto-san arrives at her friends house Date: circa 1910

Japanese woman O-koto-san takes a Rickshaw and heads out Date: circa 1910

O-koto-san receives a letter from her fiance at the war
Japanese woman O-koto-san receives a letter from her fiance at the war. Date: circa 1910

Beauty playing a koto. Print shows a woman playing a koto. Date between 1764 and 1772

Geisha and a servant carrying her koto. Print shows two women wearing geta, walking, one carrying a long box. Date 1777, printed later

The actor Ichikawa Yaozo holding a koto. Date between 1764 and 1772

Japanese woman, full length, seated, facing right, playing a koto; a shamisen leans against a wall in the background. Date ca. 1877

Koto and robe stand. Date between 1830 and 1835

Koto suruga-cho mitsu miseryakuzu. Print shows roofers working on the roof of a building, with two kites flying in the background and a view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Date between 1890 and 1940

Young maiden holding a zither (koto). Print shows a woman standing, holding a koto. Date ca. 1800

Koto and Sho panpipes. Print shows two women playing musical instruments, one playing the koto and the other panpipes. Date 1794 or 1795

Lady playing the koto. Drawing shows a Japanese woman, full-length, lying on her side, facing left, playing the koto. Date 1878 Dec

Japan - the Koto
A Japanese musician plays the KOTO, a harp-like instrument played horizontally on the floor till the player collapses from back-ache

Geisha At Her Toilet, 1902
O-Koto-San at her morning toilet

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