1885 (ca.), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, A Classroom in a High School for Girls -- Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
From the museum label:
The Meiji government's policies for women's education were extremely progressive. In 1872, it issued the Fundamental Code of Education, mandating compulsory education for boys and girls after the age of six and creating a three-part school system similar to those found in the West. These aspirational codes were intended to give citizens practical tools in order to become productive members of society.
This rare, preparatory sketch for a woodcut shows young women engaged in study in a Western-style schoolroom with high tables and chairs. Their teachers, attired in bustled dresses, gather in the foreground. The intersecting lines of the draft image reveal the mathematical precision with which the sense of perspective was achieved.
1885 (ca.), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, A Classroom in a High School for Girls -- Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
From the museum label:
The Meiji government's policies for women's education were extremely progressive. In 1872, it issued the Fundamental Code of Education, mandating compulsory education for boys and girls after the age of six and creating a three-part school system similar to those found in the West. These aspirational codes were intended to give citizens practical tools in order to become productive members of society.
This rare, preparatory sketch for a woodcut shows young women engaged in study in a Western-style schoolroom with high tables and chairs. Their teachers, attired in bustled dresses, gather in the foreground. The intersecting lines of the draft image reveal the mathematical precision with which the sense of perspective was achieved.