Parody of Morals for Women

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Parody of Morals for Women
Print   (Part of the set: Taisho era subscription prints)

Rekisentei Eiri

1910s

00024-012
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

This is a comic take on women's morals promoted in popular Edo period handbooks known as Onna Imagawa. The poem in the upper left-hand side of the print seems to encourage "looking down on your husband, placing yourself high (in importance), and forgetting heaven", an opposite version of what an Onna Imagawa might direct a reader to do. In the accompanying illustration we see a version of the poem playing out. A courtesan meets with a lover who has sneaked in during the night. She peers back into her room, where her customer is sleeping, making sure they haven't woken him up...

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