Appearing Embarrassed, Behavior of a Girl of the Meiji Period, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi; Carver: Wada Yūjirō | Mia

woman holding the PL sleeve of her kimono between her teeth; woman wears yellow, green, red and black plaid kimono with black trim and collars in purple with white spots, orange and red — Appearing Embarrassed, Behavior of a Girl of the Meiji Period, November 1888
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi; Carver: Wada Yūjirō
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis 2017.106.221
Not on View
This scene is supposed to show how a girl at the time this print was created behaved when embarrassed or shy. A contemporary Japanese viewer would have detected a subtle eroticism embedded in this design in the way the girl bites her sleeve and because a lock of her hair has escaped her coiffure. She must be from an affluent family, since she wears a fashionable kimono of checkered yellow silk cloth called kihachijō, which was traditionally made on Hachijō Island, about 180 miles south of Tokyo.

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Title: Appearing Embarrassed, Behavior of a Girl of the Meiji Period
Dated: November 1888
Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi; Carver: Wada Yūjirō
Nationality: Japanese
Artist Life: 1839 - 1892
Role: Artist
Gallery: Not on View
Department: Asian Art
Dimension: 14 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (36.35 × 23.97 cm) (image, Vertical ōban)14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in. (37.15 × 24.92 cm) (sheet)
Credit: The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis
Accession Number: 2017.106.221
Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Country: Japan
Century: 19th century
Rights: Public Domain
Classification: Prints
Object Name: Print (ukiyo-e / bijin-ga)
Catalogue Raisonne: Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 503.28; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 276.
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Portfolio: From Thirty-two Aspects of Behaviors (Fūzoku sanjūnisō 風俗三十二相)
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