Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyo’s house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice. The tatami floor of the room is covered with folded kimono, tobacco pipes, boxes, mirror and hairdressing items, etc. 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.

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