Gesang School (i.e. kisaeng school)
- Title:
- Gesang School (i.e. kisaeng school)
- Collection:
- Willard D. Straight in Korea
- Date:
- ca. 1904
- Country:
- North Korea
United States - ID Number:
- 1260.74.09.02
- Collection Number:
- 1260
- File Name:
- 1260.74.09.02.tif
- Work Type:
- Ephemera
Postcards - Subject:
- Costume
Entertainers
Women
Singers
Dancers - Measurement:
- 9 x 14 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Korean kisaengs, or singing girls, dressed up for singing and dancing. Korean kisaeng is special women's occupation that exists for helping parties enjoyable by singing and dancing. Their social position was among the lowest in the traditional Korean class system. Their daughters also became kisaengs and their sons became slaves. The art of entertaining of the kisaeng is analogous to Japanese geisha. These professional entertainers were highly trained in the arts of poetry, music, dance, and other forms of social or artistic diversion. The picture is somewhat curious. It was taken in front of a modern, western-style brick building, with a very peculiar Korean screen as the backdrop.
- Cite As:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers, #1260. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction by including the following text: Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/guidelines.html.