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[A Japanese lady kneeling in her home] – Historic Print

[A Japanese lady kneeling in her home] — historic photograph
[A Japanese lady kneeling in her home]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Kneeling on the floor of what appears to be a tatami room, the woman in this 1905 photographic print shows a domestic posture that many Western viewers found striking at the time. The year falls in the late Meiji period, shortly after the Russo-Japanese War ended, when photographs of ordinary Japanese households were widely sold abroad as views of everyday life. Images like this were often arranged for the camera, so the room's furnishings and the sitter's clothing are worth studying as evidence of how domestic life was presented to outside audiences.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1905
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127511

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