The Sarashe Sisters, three young Japanese ladies, had little to do with filmmaking. Their only appearance in film was in 1894, near the beginning of the silent era, when inventor Thomas Alva Edison filmed them performing the Mikado, a Japanese dance, in Edison's Black Maria studio. This film, "Imperial Japanese Dance" was all the Sarashe Sisters had to do with filmmaking of any sort, and they remained a minor part of the silent cinema, in acting and non-acting.
