Minneapolis Institute of Art
Appearing Embarrassed, Behavior of a Girl of the Meiji Period
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi; Carver: Wada YūjirōLinkedCulture matchlcp-c6186df75ba7
- Date
- November 1888
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 127953
What the image shows
A woman dressed in traditional Japanese attire, including a green and yellow checkered kimono, a red obi, and a black hat adorned with a red ribbon, is seated and looking down.
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From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
This scene is supposed to show how a girl at the time this print was created behaved when embarrassed or shy. A contemporary Japanese viewer would have detected a subtle eroticism embedded in this design in the way the girl bites her sleeve and because a lock of her hair has escaped her coiffure. She must be from an affluent family, since she wears a fashionable kimono of checkered yellow silk cloth called kihachijō, which was traditionally made on Hachijō Island, about 180 miles south of Tokyo. Asia
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- The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis
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