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/

    Comments and faves

    1. Elf-Y, ykat1600, biwabcn, bbbelo, and 24 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. 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!

    3. 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.

    4. This photo was invited and added to the SACKHEAD & BOXHEAD PHOTOGRAPHS group.

    5. Okinawa Soba (10 months ago | reply)

      Considering that the Han Chinese smashed and crippled the feet of their female children, and tossed others that they didn't want down "Baby Wells", I wouldn't be the least surprised to discover that they were drowning their wives in Pig Baskets.

      I wonder what kind of baskets they used to drown unfaithful husbands ?

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