Arayori (A Peasant Woman)

ca. 1915 (Taisho period)

53.3 cm 133 cm 61 cm

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Artist Yoshida Hōmei was awarded a gold medal for this sculpture. The work reveals an idealizing nostalgia for rural life following Japan’s rapid modernization and aggressive international engagement in the Meiji period (1868–1912). Hōmei carved into the wood a wonderful expre...

Sculpture

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12037
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The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, San Francisco, 1915; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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7
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