GEISHA GIRLS GONE BAD ? -- Two Japanese Women Hiding Their Faces in the Docket of a Tokyo Courtroom.
The Year is 1922. We are in the middle of the TAISHO period. What these girls did to get in so much trouble, I will leave to your imagination. Whatever it was, they were hiding their shame and their faces from the public. Off to the left, and out of the picture stands a police officer of the Court. In the blackness beyond sits a crowd of onlookers.
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: What is the connection between crime and shame, religion and anonymity, and.....putting a BASKET ON YOUR HEAD ? And what, if anything, does that have to do with Geisha Gone Wild?
Please look at these two pictures, and see if you can come up with your own theory: www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2358251714/ and www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2329054417/

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Elf-Y, ykat1600, biwabcn, bbbelo, and 24 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Elmer I. Nocheseda ng Pateros (44 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called SaLaKoT, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
ruchitapatel75 (41 months ago | reply)
Sew Sew Happy (27 months ago | reply)
In ancient China they drown woman in baskets (used normally to transport pigs) for being unfaithful to their husbands...or that is what I have heard.
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Okinawa Soba (10 months ago | reply)
I wonder what kind of baskets they used to drown unfaithful husbands ?