Young Lady, with Pipe
Photograph
Young Lady, with Pipe
From the album Photographic Views and Costumes of Japan
ca. 1868
Albumen silver print with applied color
20.3 x 25.5 cm.
Purchase
1979.0059.0015
Inscriptions (applied label, printed, opposite page):
YOUNG LADY, WITH PIPE.
FOR the use, cultivation, and name of tobacco, the Japanese are indebted to the Portuguese. Its consumption is universal, both by men and women; the quantity used in their tiny pipes is very small, a single whiff only -- which is inhaled, swallowed, and allowed to escape through the nostrils--being taken at one time.
A neatly ornamented box called Hibachi, containing a small quantity of lighted charcoal in a metal brazier, tobacco in the drawers, toothpick, pins, and also a spiting pot is always brought to a visitor, who is pressed to smoke by his host or hostess. Tea and often sweetmeats are presented at the same time.
In official calls, or audiences with persons in authority, no business is discussed before the exchange of various compliments, and the partaking of tobacco and tea.
YOUNG LADY, WITH PIPE.
FOR the use, cultivation, and name of tobacco, the Japanese are indebted to the Portuguese. Its consumption is universal, both by men and women; the quantity used in their tiny pipes is very small, a single whiff only -- which is inhaled, swallowed, and allowed to escape through the nostrils--being taken at one time.
A neatly ornamented box called Hibachi, containing a small quantity of lighted charcoal in a metal brazier, tobacco in the drawers, toothpick, pins, and also a spiting pot is always brought to a visitor, who is pressed to smoke by his host or hostess. Tea and often sweetmeats are presented at the same time.
In official calls, or audiences with persons in authority, no business is discussed before the exchange of various compliments, and the partaking of tobacco and tea.
