A young woman in a traditional Bugaku costume. 
A hand-coloured photograph from around 1880.
Bugaku is a traditional Japanese dance, combining Buddhist and Shinto elements. 
Bugako performers are always male, so this was almost certainly a studio photograph.
I digitally enhanced the photo (not too much, as I wanted to keep its vintage look) and placed it on a different, more modern background, in shades of green, pink and gold. 
                                
                                        The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is,  don't you think? ;-)
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