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This document discusses the changing depictions of gender and women in Japanese painting during the Meiji period (1868-1912). It notes that after initial attempts to import Western art, a movement called Nihonga emerged to promote native Japanese painting styles. Nihonga artists faced the task of developing new representations of women that aligned with the ideal of the "good wife and wise mother" instead of the courtesans celebrated in earlier ukiyo-e art. By the early 20th century, paintings often depicte

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Mila

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