#Ōta Chōu

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Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

#art #art history #Ōta Chōu #Asian art #Japanese art #East Asian art #genre art #astronomy #color on paper #Showa period #Showa era #20th century art #National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

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Ōta Chōu - Smallpox Vaccination (1934)

#Ōta Chōu #japanese art #genre painting #1930s

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Ōta Chōu 太田聴雨 (1896-1958)

Women Watching Stars  1936   

colour on paper

#chou ota #Ōta Chōu

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Vaccination (Shutō, 種痘, Figure 1), painted by Ōta Chōu (1896–1958) in 1934 provides insight into modern Japan’s smallpox eradication campaigns and policies as represented by one artist. The inclusion of vaccination as a subject in fine art shows us the success of modern health and hygiene campaigns, and that the insertion of the state into issues of the body and physical well-being was widely accepted in 1930s Japan. It also hints at imperial Japan’s expansionist policies and exposes the changing gender dynamics of the time.

#vaccination #cw description of needles and variolation #smallpox #history #japanese history #1930s

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Chōu Ōta  -  Women Observing Stars   (1936)