Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Woman in Kimono and Western Dress

Left: "Japanese woman in a ceremonial kimono and ancient hairdress and Hagoita, the paddle part of Japan's ancient game of shuttelcock and battledore." Right: "The same woman in modern dress with Japan's famous cultured pearls."
From: Mutsu, Ian and Russell, Oland D. Here's Tokyo. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., 1953.

 

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