Ladies Sewing (Kijo saih? no zu) September 3rd, 1887 Adachi Gink? ???? Japanese 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. Chikanobu’s ornamented machine is similar to Singer’s New Family Machine, which was produced from 1865 to around Ladies Sewing (Kijo saih? no zu). Adachi Gink
Ladies Sewing (Kijo saih? no zu) September 3rd, 1887 Adachi Gink? ???? Japanese 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. Chikanobu’s ornamented machine is similar to Singer’s New Family Machine, which was produced from 1865 to around Ladies Sewing (Kijo saih? no zu). Adachi Gink? ???? (Japanese, active 1874–97). Japan. September 3rd, 1887. Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper. Meiji period (1868–1912). Prints
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