Ca. 1907 A Day in the Life of a Japanese Girl, set of 10 colored postcards in envelope

Yokohama: Ueda Company, Ca. 1907. Date, place and publisher not given, but someone on flickr who seemed fairly knowledgeable posted pictures from a set of 12 cards and said they were published in Yokohama by the Ueda Company in 1907, featuring identical images to ours. Our set of ten (complete, according to the original printed envelope) likely preceeds the 12 postcard set. They follow the day of a girl referred to in the English captions at O-koto-san, showing her at her toilet, receiving a letter from her fiancé at the war, dressing up to go visiting, taking a rickshaw, arriving at her friend's house, taking tea with her friend, providing music, returning home and chatting to her maid while eating supper, making ready for bed and indulging in a smoke while she thinks of her soldier lover, and finally falling asleep on her futon. So, not really a girl, more like a young woman. Possibly "the war" refers to the Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904-05. Fine. Item #H38815

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