RL Fifield performing Botan with Ichifujikai in 2006. My height earned me male roles, along with accompanying tummy padding under my...

Leaving the historic Ferry Building. RL Fifield 2010. We are off to Governor’s Island at some point this weekend. Whereas tourists seek...

The garments draped over the racks in the golden scene depicted on this screen raise questions about the woman who left them there. The...

This woodblock print in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts The Geisha Toye as a Vendor of Poems, and dates to c. 1795. Geisha were...