Women’s Activities of the Tokugawa Era

A print depicting women's activities of the Tokugawa era — a documentary subject cataloguing the domestic, social, and cultural practices of Edo-period women as part of Chikanobu's broader project of historical documentation. Women's activities in the Tokugawa period were both strictly regulated by social convention and richly varied within those conventions: textile production, flower arrangement, music, tea ceremony, calligraphy, and the management of complex households all fell within the expected competencies of women of different social ranks.