Ladies Sewing (Kijo saihō no zu), 『貴女裁縫之図』, Meiji period (1868–1912), September 3rd, 1887, Japan, Triptych of polychrome

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Ladies Sewing (Kijo saihō no zu), 『貴女裁縫之図』, Meiji period (1868–1912), September 3rd, 1887, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Image: 14 in. × 28 1/2 in. ( × cm), Prints, Adachi (Shōsai) Ginkō (Japanese, active 1874–97), The sewing machine is the featured attraction in this print of upper-class women making and ironing men’s clothing. Sewing machines were a novelty in Japan in the 1870s, but by the mid-1880s, when wearing Western dress was enforced for many government employees, seamstresses and tailors used treadle machines in preference to the old-style hand machine

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