Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: Online exhibition on how women and their families experienced pregnancy and childbirth in early modern Japan. This exhibition centers around how women and their families experienced pregnancy and childbirth in early modern Japan, and also introduces how birth control methods such as abortion and infanticide (called mabiki, or “thinning out”) were viewed. We have chosen a selection of ukiyo-e artwork from the 1820s to the 1880s, the majority taken from the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) collection.
- Institution/Author: UCSF Archives and Special Collections and guest curator, YASUI Manami (International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
- Period: Premodern
- Geographic Focus: Japan
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎