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Title
Girl doing calligraphy
Alternative Title
True beauties; Shinbijin: no. 20
Creator
Chikanobu, Yoshu
Date Created and/or Issued
1897-10
Publication Information
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints
Rights Information
The contents of this item, including all images and text, are for personal, educational, and non-commercial use only. The contents of this item may not be reproduced in any form without the express permission of Scripps College. Any form of image reproduction, transmission, display, or storage in any retrieval system is prohibited without the written consent of Scripps College and other copyright holders. Scripps College retains all rights, including copyright, in data, images, documentation, text and other information contained in these files. For permissions, please contact: Scripps College, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Attn: Rights and Reproductions, 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711
Description
A young girl with a modern bobbed hair style and a fashionable kimono is seated at a Western style school desk doing calligraphy. She holds her brush as if it were a pen or pencil rather than in the traditional vertical position, as shown in the print "Meiwa." (Bruce Coats, Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints, p. 194.)
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cyw/id/88
Language
Japanese
Subject
Children (people by age group)
Kimonos
Calligraphy
Hairstyles
Desks
Ukiyo-e
Print
Time Period
Meiji (Japan, 1869-1912)
Source
Woodcuts; Ink on Paper; accession number 2006.1.21
Relation
Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cyw

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