Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century

Women of the working class in Tokyo, Edo Era, 18th century. A laundress washing clothes in a tub, a menial maid carrying water pales with yoke, servant with brush, and nursemaid with baby. Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanba's Ehon Imayo Sugata (Picture Book of the Modern Forms and Figures, Tokyo, 1916. Reprint of the original from 1802

Cartouche Cosmetics Customers Ehon Forms Geisha Imayo Kimono Madam Sanba Shikitei Sugata Toyokuni Ukiyo Utagawa Woodblock

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