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Evening

Artwork · Shoen Uemura · 1941 · kakemono

A late bijinga by Shoen Uemura (1875–1949), Japan’s most notable woman painter before the war and the first to receive the Order of Cultural Merit, raised by her mother in a tea shop: a frugal young woman threads a needle by moonlight — the image of her own mother, painted in 1941, when women were asked to conserve the country’s resources. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 369–370, fig. 439. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.