Five colorful traditional japanese kokeshi dolls. Choose your favourite one! woman girls Kokeshi dolls 德源涌 娃娃 日语 Kokeshi 娃娃
So I'm not sure why he is making a fan. Maybe to show off to his friends down the hill. "Hey look I made an awesome new fan!!" But his nice wife is bringing him some tea. I sure hope he says thank you! 传统 日语 夫妇 传统的日本夫妇
A woman holds a flower in a pot and stares at the viewer. Her mind is on love, her heart is aching. The love of her life has torn himself away from her and she fears she will never see him again. She might need to water that plant soon. 和服 女子 日本 和服女孩-1903
So flowers were manly back then. And so were bushy mustaches. Wow, now we know why Queen was such a popular rock band in Japan! These two samurai look annoyed at eachother. I added the red character in the upper right, of course it reads "samurai" and I just thought it added balance to this image. 武士 明显 生气 引人注目的武士
So this paper in 1906 was saying the cool thing to do at Garden Parties was to dress up in Japanese kimonos and get lanterns and do the Japanesy thing. So thats what these Western women are doing. Japan-geeks from more than a 100 years ago. I suppose they werent anime fans yet, but give them a time machine and they would be. 和服 日本 美国 美国的一个想法的和服-1906
So this family is so classically Japanese. Mum pays attention to Son, and Dad is off in his own world ignoring them. But I guess he has something important on the mind. Like he is trying to think of a new sandal to buy or something. 传统 家庭 日本 日本家庭
I based this on a picture from the National Diet Library (of Japan). That image was very old, and is undoubtedly in the public domain. I did this one in color. If you are wondering the Japanese title stamp next to her says something similar to "100 beautiful women" (this was part of a series). 肤色 卡通 女子 和服的女人清洗她的脚
This is based off of an illustration found in the November 06, 1904 edition of New-York tribune. (Thus public domain all the way.) A woman and her young child greet her husband as he rides in on a horse. 日本 剪影 人民 旧日本-和服家庭