Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Title: Mitate tosei (Modern Choices)

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Source: British Museum
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Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Carpenter's wife with a large adze over her shoulder and farmer's wife smoking a pipe and nursing her baby. Middle sheet of a triptych depicting women representing the four classes of society: shi (warriors), ko (craftsmen), no (farmers), and sho (merchants).

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