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A Teahouse Waitress
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A Teahouse Waitress

Artist/Culture (Japanese, 1866–1905)
Date1898
Mediummulticolor woodblock
Dimensions37 x 25 cm (14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineHarriet B. Bancroft Fund
Object number1993.5
Label TextThe roles of women of the lower classes changed more slowly than those of the upper classes. Women continued to work in traditional occupations such as teahouse waitresses even though by 1890 they had become the backbone of the developing Japanese industrial economy. Meiji period (1868-1912) reformers concluded that the treatment accorded women was a measure of the level of civilization of a society, and when leaders mandated primary school education in 1873, they required male and female children to attend.ProvenanceHuys den Esch, A.H.M. van Doesburg, Kerkstraat 6, 6669 DD Dodewaard, The Netherlands
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