Title : Stepmother

Artist : Hirezaki Eiho

Date : Ca. 1900.

Details : Hirezaki Eiho: Stepmother - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : A book illustration (sashi-e) for the story, "Stepmother, Stepson" by Yanagawa which was published by Bungei Kurabu, a popular literary magazine in Meiji era. The story was a tear-jerking soap opera about the child custody battle between two mothers. The unfriendly description of the natural mother as a Westernized, rich, ego-maniac. The stepmother was depicted as a traditional, passive, helpless woman whom everone should sympathize with.

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