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“ Shoujo no Tomo” October 19th (Vol. 6, No. 11 ) published in 1913 (Taisho 2) (from Koei no Nihonsha), “Colorful Autumn Leaves” ( painted by Shinichiro Shinoda )

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Mitsukoshi Department store poster in 1925 designed by Sugiura Hisui

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いとし鈴蘭 (My Beloved Lily of the Valley) by Takabatake Kasho, year unknown.

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Tada Hokuu, The Tokyo Peace Exhibition, Ueno Park Tokyo, 1922

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Woman with a Towel (Portrait of Hisae)

Hashiguchi Goyô (Japanese, 1881–1921)Japanese, Taishô era1920 (Taishô 9), October Woodblock print; ink and color on paper Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith’s Group

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都の花石鹸　 (1912年) 野村外吉商店　

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Today, on June 25th, 1924, Yumeji Takehisa’s poetry-based Senoh sheet music “Matsubara” is published. A woman leaning against a pine tree decorated the cover. Yumeji draws a lot of women leaning against trees and walls. The leaning and leaning on something seems to symbolize the circumstances of women who lived in the Taisho era. [Text by Yayoi Museum and Yumeji Takehisa Museum]

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The Tokyo Peace Exhibition, 1922

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Hibiya Park in Tokyo, Japan: a pair of Geisha wearing kimonos in a car. ca. 1912

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It's raining in Tokyo. On days like this, you'd expect to see traditional Japanese rain-themed woodblock prints, but actually this piece is by an Austrian artist - Fritz Cappelari's "A Schoolgirl Returning Home in the Rain" (1915).

The artist came to Japan in 1911 but couldn't return home due to the First World War. So instead, he studied woodblock printing and ukiyo-e. The artist's signature is particularly clever, don't you think?

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In 1910, The Mitsukoshi Department Store hired the capable artist Sugiura Hisui to be chief art advertising designer. This 1914 poster by Hisui shows both the influence of a dying Art Nouveau, but a striking foreshadowing of the Art Deco period to come.