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[Japanese woman wearing wire spectacles] – Antique Print

[Japanese woman wearing wire spectacles] — historic print
[Japanese woman wearing wire spectacles]. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Japanese woman wearing wire spectacles]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A Japanese woman in a kimono is shown wearing a pair of wire-framed spectacles, a detail that makes this color woodcut stand out from the many idealized beauty portraits of the period. Printed in 1897, late in the Meiji era, when Western goods and fashions were moving into Japanese cities, the image pairs a traditional garment with a newly imported object. Its subject matter, a woman with glasses rather than a courtesan or actress, reflects how Japan was absorbing Western technology and style while the woodblock tradition still shaped how such images were made and sold.

Medium1 print : woodcut, color.
Genredreams and substances
Notes[1897]
SubjectsWomen--Japanese--Japan--1890-1900. Kimonos--1890-1900. Eyeglasses--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,801 × 4,735 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222115

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