kakekotoba:Autumn on my mind today because I can’t stand the summer heat, so here are some photos of
kakekotoba:Autumn on my mind today because I can’t stand the summer heat, so here are some photos of Kisaragi-tayû (如月太夫) at the Buddhist temple Seiryô-ji (清涼寺) for the 2013 Yûgiri Kuyô-sai (夕霧供養祭 / commonly abbreviated Yûgiri-sai 夕霧祭).Yûgiri-sai is a memorial service held every year on the second Sunday in November for one (technically 2) of The Three Meigi (名妓 distinguished geisha/artists) of tayû history, Yûgiri. Though primarily connected to Ôsaka, she first rose to prominence in the Ôgi-ya house of Shimabara, Kyôto, in the late 1600s. The Ôgi-ya was relocated to the Shinmachi district, where Yûgiri-tayû I became the first tayû in Ôsaka. She was famous for her beauty, artistic sensitivity, and sensual wit – and the tragic fact that she died in her 20s. Her life has been romanticized in several works of art and Kabuki plays, and after her death, yûgiri (夕霧 evening fog) became an autumnal “seasonal word” used in Japanese poetry.The actress Nakamura Yoshiko (中村芳子 1920 – 1987) succeeded to the myôseki (名跡 inherited professional name) of Yûgiri-tayu II in Shimabara, 1980. Her father’s family goes back to the Kabuki actor Nakamura Ganjirô I, who was born in the Shinmachi Ôgi-ya in 1860. You can visit the grave of Yûgiri I at Jôkoku-ji (浄国寺) in Ôsaka, and Yûgiri II at Seiryô-ji in Kyôto.[photo 1 Source; photo 2 + 3 Source; photo 4 Source](please check out the full size of photo 4, the details in Kisaragi-tayû’s uchikake are amaaazing) -- source link