The Ukiyo-e Artist Shigenobu is known for Bijinga and Shunga and landscapes but also created a unique and wonderful record of a famous geisha costume procession held in Osaka in which Geisha dressed as famous people from both Chinese and Japanese or at least how they thought such characters dressed. It was perhaps more an ancestor of cosplay?
This woman choose to dress as Otohime a Dragon Princess with a Dragon head-dress and a costume with an outer robe patterned to suggest scales.
I managed to find another image showing a close up.
Bizarre yet Beautiful.
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