Women nestling up

『写された幕末-石黒敬七コレクション』(明石書店)によると､慶応3年パリ万博に手踊り披露に遠征した日本娘を撮影したもので､横浜にて発売されたとある｡あまり日本的でないと思われるポーズも､こうした経緯を知ると納得できる｡According to "The Bakumatsu Photograph Collection of Ishiguro Keishichi" published by Akashi Shoten, these women were dispatched by the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Paris Exposition in 1867. It is said that this photograph was sold in Yokohama. The pose struck by the women is understandably not typically Japanese