Japanese Print "Natural Mother (Kuchi-e)" by Hirezaki Eiho
Artist:Hirezaki Eiho
Title:Natural Mother (Kuchi-e)
Date:Ca. 1900.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
A book illustration for the story, "Stepmother, Stepson" by Yanagawa which was published by Bungei Kurabu, a popular literary magazine in Meiji era. The story was a tear-jerking soap opera about the child custody battle between two mothers. The unfriendly description of the natural mother as a Westernized, rich, ego-maniac. The stepmother was depicted as a traditional, passive, helpless woman whom everone should sympathize with.
