A gallery of the idols, or their rough equivalent, of 100 years prior to the present, whilst Japan was still in the Meiji period and freshly pirating all the technology it could lay its hands on.
Their swimwear is at times surprisingly risqué, although we should of course remember that certain concepts of modesty have swung in and out of fashion in both East and West repeatedly.
What a change having to do Photoshop by hand…
Via Heaven.
2D fans can see fine art in the form of shunga tentacle raep. Antique photography fans should check out a site devoted to old Japan photos.
MY EYES! ARGHHHH!
MUST UNSEE THIS!
HELP!
THAT CAMEL TOE!!!
I cant help it – (even) when I imagine the coloring away, the photos seem fake. It not so difficult to have girls of today wear a yesterday’s hairdo and ancient clothes. Removing the colors and adding a sepia/yellow tone would be a blink.
It’s the general sharpness and lack of grain that makes me suspicious.
Some them, if not all, were made in a studio with a wallpaper background – it’s visible. That may be an pro or contra argument regarding a fake from today, I dunno.
I always thought japanese artists were a bit incompetent, I regret and take it back.
*points* They ALL look the same.
These could all be dudes for we know.
Meiji… this is the kind of retro porn Kenshin and Sanosuke would fap off to.
I somewhat think this is one of the most awesome posts on this site
Fapping to this has it benefits.
OMG, MEIJI LOLIS XD
11 – 20 look very young…I wonder how old they were at the time the pics were taken…:P
I don’t think a comparison to todays models/idols/av stars is reasonable, since the ideal of beauty differs so much…
Also…What’s the comment : “If you look at modern idols today, you’ll see they all look the same”…?
Look at China Yuuki, Ria Sakurai, Rina Koizumi, Jun Natsukawa or Tina ‘Rio’ Yuzuki…etc…
If you have TASTE, japanese female beauty will NEVER bore you…> >
can u accept me as ur student.bcoz u really have master the fine art of japanese girls
some of these just have to be boys.
They’ve learned to smile.
Would like to know how many of them were actually young boys.
nice to know j feet were just as hot back then.
great photos.
any nudes?
Possibly the scariest gallery i have ever seen
soo fucken scary..
not hot ,but still kinda cute sometimes
also the colouring makes them look rather psychadelic
Seems like opening their boarders to the outside world so some other races can mix in was the best decision they ever made.
esta bien facil hacer eso con los colores.
…Thank goodness i life in the modern era…
It is a photograph where an old Japanese and a modern Japanese understand the factor assumed to be beautiful is greatly different.
There must be beautiful woman (yamatonadesiko) in old Japan ..doing.. if plain is liked in the form of the face of the melon.
wow, these photos are precious historical documents. thanks for highlighting this.
pale… its too pale… -_-
they fap to this ages ago?
hmm I like some girls in these picture.
but I think idol in Meiji era is Geisha/Geigi.
The Geisha that was popular then is Ryouko Mutsu（陸奥亮子）, Teruha （照葉）…etc
Bunch of Oompa Loompas.
Why am I fapping to scenes from Silent Hill….?
This proof that human evolution does work for the better.
Hmm you don’t know how hard my boner died.
just WOW…
really…
If these girls are still alive today, they’d be 100-something year old grandmas with sagging tits.
Now I’ve seen everything I can sleep happily
Wow they look so short… Even shorter than modern day Japanese women.
Oh what the hell.
Somebody should bust out some photoshop on these ladies, then we’ll see how they compare.
Wow these are aincient lol…
There were a lot of ugly-faced chicks in that gallery (and a few cute ones).
Long hair is nice; painted faces are not.
My US$0.02
I think this is my favourite gallery* (Historical Context FTW!)
The young ones are particularly enchanting
*as I’m never interested in their “fap” potential
Their heads seem to be so big comparing to their body. People back then must have been a lot shorter than nowadays.
is it just me or do all these whores look exactly the same?
No, they really don’t.
If you look at modern idols today, you’ll see they all look the same, albeit with varying hairstyles and breasts.
What you may be thinking is actually that, assuming you’re not asian, these outmoded idols all look to be of a race different from your own. It’s that weird racial effect that makes all ‘white’ people look the same from the veiw of a person from a very ‘black’ country; and vice versa.
Japanese idols these days are so westernised, huh?
“Japanese idols these days are so westernised, huh?”
True dat
Am I the only one who finds this creepy?
kowai yo
Welcome to the club. Blame it for watching too many J-Horror movies…..
I bet they fapped long and hard to this back in the day.
Lol at the hairstyles.
Sorry, I can’t fap to these. They just look too young in these pictures.
more like too old for my ass
They look bored.
#15 is fucking hott.
anyway the hand coloring is really creepy on some of these.
erg.
All I have to say is booooo.
damn, i like the first ones hair *_*
What? No sukumizu? >.>
Hadn’t been invented yet i believe..
The best 3D gallery (or the only good one) ever on Sankaku. Unlike idols nowadays, they don’t look like cheap whores. On the other hand… they’re pretty sexy and delicious!
Not sure if troll
Fuck you, Artefact.
I just ate. 🙁
that your fault…
who ask you surfing this site after eat…
you
I say, those wily Orientals and their scandalous pictographs do make for a grand night of boxing the Jesuit, eh what?
can’t unseee
OMG, I see bare shoulder! FAPFAPFAP!!
Here’s the site that the idiot stole them from, before putting his watermark on them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/collections/72157605918488660/
Which idiot? They came from a Chinese site, and they feel compelled by ancient tradition to steal and watermark all images which come into their possession. Yet to see a Chinese site which doesn’t do this…
are these real?
This whole gallery….
….do not want.
welll… this is all very different … they even have lolis though
In Sakura Taisen, the girls from Teikoku Kagekidan were wearing modern bikinis instead of these kind of oldschool swimsuits..
Sakura Taisen takes place in the Taisho period, big diffrence!
Not that they had bikinis in those days either…
Or steam-powered mecha deployed by gigantic airships, or huge areas of urban housing developments in Tokyo that just turn 90 degrees relative to the horizon whenever said airship needs to leave its subterranean hangar, or steam-powered wireless telecommunication devices that fit into a tiny suitcase and work even if there’s the entire Pacific Ocean between them, or …
Japan has come a long way…
when i first saw the pics w/o reading the topic i thought this was oni idol gallery
agreed.. not just the 1st pic. all of them look like in the horror movie
lol talk about how the change in clothing culture due to time
WHY LOOK SO DIFFERENT
Why do they all look so sleepy?
why is their clothes colored and their skins gray scale?
oldschool photoshop by hand. it was around back in those days.
If these ladies were alive, they would be the trailblazers of longevity records.
fap fap fap fap fap….
oh wait… wrong section XD
if its loli you’re looking for then you’re right on
I can’t fap on them because it’s necrophilia.
I fap on them because it’s necrophilia.
….THSI ISN’T PORN ….
my pen15 would hurt if i fap with those images on my mind. qq
And before photoshop.
the era before plastic surgery~~
Are these screenshots for a new J-Horror movie?
Yeah there screen-shots for the sequel “ringu”
I’m glad that I’m not the only one that thinks it is actually a bit creepy.
Fap? More like Lol.
yuck
those are kinda …. creepy >.>
*puts my pants back on*
Oh god, why did I lol so hard?
oh god, why am I fapping so hard?
…No way. That isn’t… possible.
YES. WHY?
how old is this pictures??!
wooo.. that was top idol 1909..
and that was bikini idol on that time?
also got silor uniform too… great…
Clothing styles never die, they just get resurrected later on.
I was going through some old family photos when I came across one of a fine-looking young woman (in her early twenties?) wearing a navy-blue sailor top + ankle-length skirt.
I said, “Nice.”
My mom snarled, “That’s your great grandmother’s sister!”
Ooops.
Congratulations on your excellent eyesight. I somehow failed to spot the nautical allusions in the garments depicted in picture #26.
Not exactly appealing, but defiantly interesting, impressive that such photos sill exist.
*FaP! FAP! FAP!*
Looks like that suit Donald Duck used to wear back in those old Disney cartoons. Striped ones…
WAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWAK
those flapper hoa show theur whole ankle 😯
Very interesting. The girls in image #14 particularly would still have a good career as gravure idols today, if it hadn’t been for the war and the simple passage of time surely spoiling their features.
I also find it interesting that my nickname automatically links to the SC front page if I post while logged in as contributor. Hadn’t realised.
You can change it from your settings page.
anyone is *cough* fapping *cough* to this? XD
MY GOD I CAN SEE THEIR ANKLES! *fap fap fap*
oh i’m so fuckin lol’d
you guys are hilarious 😀
Mhm… Fap?
Ewww. Not to these. Have some dignity man…
Interesting to see, although hardly as appealing.
creepy pictures, kinda reminds me of the fatal frame games for ps2 ugh -_-…
i say this is way more “exposed” than today’s idol, i see nipples by the lotus pond!!!!!
I lol’d
Funny what 100 years can do, lol
Life is dull in the old days
I say, the eleventh daguerreotype is of utmost beauty in displaying such nubile Cipangu dolls.
lol
i concur sir waddington
Now proceeding to freak at the utmost timely speed.
Makes you wonder what they’d think of modern idols.
there is tit in 19
Surely, they would ejaculate their brains out.
oh, i see, so they embraced camel toe back in those days
They didn’t even have bras back in those days, what do you expect?
it looks like they also lacked cute girls
I’m curious to know as to what you think a camel toe is, or where on the body a bra is worn.
Hint: One of them isn’t right.
Back then I think they were just so prudish the photographer didn’t know how to point out that the camel toe was showing, nor any viewers.
The bra is worn on my head like always…
Aside from that, these pictures look very surreal. I like it, kool post, and 2 thumbs up.
His idea of camel toe would only apply to Aya style, yes.
maybe that is aya-style bra wearing he means?
camel toe is obviously on the camel feet.