Dangerous Beauties and Dutiful Wives At the start of World

At the start of World War II

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Apple butter

The most sophisticated challenges include a pumpkin

Dangerous Beauties and Dutiful Wives At the start of WorldThis captivating gallery offers rare glimpses of Japanese culture during the early years of the 20th century. Drawn from popular women's magazines of the Taish period, its kuchi e (frontispiece pictures) of bijin (beauties) represent a variety of artists, from the visual poetry of famous painters to more prosaic efforts by anonymous designers. Printed in the era's latest techniques of color lithography and offset printing, these kuchi e bijin were