Some of the items I received in my package yesterday. They include:
A barely used, gorgeous crimson chirimen obiage with silver asanoha.
Six kanzashi - two daikin/daikan and four katsuyama. They're cherry blossoms (April), bell flowers (September), pampas grass (August), chrysanthemums (October), and rape blossoms/canola (March). All were made by Kintakedo.
The box for the chrysanthemum kanzashi is signed "Mamechiyo" (豆千代), so they are very old! There's currently two geiko active with the name of Mamechiyo - one in Gion Kobu and the other in Pontocho. Pontocho's didn't do a maiko stage, so that leaves Gion Kobu's, who was a maiko back in the 1960s. There is a retired geiko named Mamechiyo who worked in Gion Higashi, but she too did not have a maiko stage.
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