https:\/\/photojpn.org\/postcards\/albums.php<\/a><\/p>\nIt sounds like a good lead.
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\nHi, Philbert –
\nI was browsing your website, again, and noticed that you don’t have a name for the smiling geisha of Yokohama. In 1905, Karl Lewis published a catalogue of the postcards he had for sale, including a section on “The Belle of Japan – Tokimatsu” – 22 postcards of “the smiling geisha”. The catalogue was reproduced in the Oct. 1987 issue of Japanese Philately. I have seen a few of these cards on eBay, although infrequently – one is up right now.<\/p>\n
I assume Tokimatsu was her professional name – I read somewhere that she was a waitress, but I’ve seen a couple of rather risque pics of her, too. this may be no more than a nickname, but with enough data points, you may be able to identify her.\u00a0![\"Smile\"](\"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/bbs\/images\/smiles\/icon_smile.gif\")
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Luck! Alan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just received the note below about the identity of the “Laughing Geisha” on the vintage postcards I display here: https:\/\/photojpn.org\/postcards\/albums.php It sounds like a good lead. ———— Hi, Philbert – I was browsing your website, again, and noticed that… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I just received the note below about the identity of the “Laughing Geisha” on the vintage postcards I display here:<\/p>\n