Women's Prewar Tennis Team, 1910s
"Young women from a school in Aichi prefecture, Okazaki City, ca. 19[1]0s, who loved tennis and ping pong and wore a special uniform of piped or bagged sleeves." The Japanese caption says these students were good at math and science but not composition. Their helathy, strong life was "suitable for their sex." Caption From: No editor or author given. Ichiokunin no Shōwa shi (Shōwa History of One Hundred Million). Vol. 3. Sandai no onna tachi (Three Generations of Women). Part Two. Shōwa sengo hen (After the War). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, June 1981. Image From: Ichikawa Fusae to fujin sanseiken undō: Ichikawa Fusae seitan 100-nen kinen. Tokyo: Ichikawa Fusae Kinenkai Shuppanbu, 1992; 10.
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