Week 2 images

Here are the images that I showed in lecture today. Please feel free to address them in your short response piece.


Woman wielding Japanese halberd


Academy for girls


Textbook for girls (kana syllabary)


Kabuki performance with women in audience


19th-century female literatus, Ema Saikô


Woman on pilgrimage


Elite women and female retainer


Peasant women working in fields


Female employees in 19th-century print shop


High-rank courtesans with examples of calligraphy


Mid-rank courtesans on display


Low-rank streetwalker


Courtesan evaluation book


Yoshiwara guidebook


Courtesan as subject of beautiful woman print


17th-century amorous tale (Life of an Amorous Woman)


19th-century human emotion book, with courtesan and geisha as heroines


Hishikawa Moronobu print from late 17th century


Couple looking at erotic Genji scroll


Lonesome woman consoling herself with erotic print


Image of two women


Woman purchasing sex toys from travelling merchant


Recipe for aphrodisiac from sex manual




Diagrams of female and male genitalia from sex manual


Sex toy diagram from sex manual


Image of aborted fetuses (Life of an Amorous Woman)


Re-enactment of courtesan procession