Pictures of women and prints about them covered the fashionable beauties of the geisha trade, women in a variety of domestic roles, women used to display and flaunt the gorgeous fabrics of their clothing and women in strange poses illustrating ideas of feminine beauty. Characteristics of the beautiful woman included a long and elegant neck, an S-shaped body posture and a generally submissive pose. In some cass they were exactly analogous to today's super-models, clothes-horses for the display of beautiful fabrics. These prints were used by the vendors of fabrics to advertise their wares much as a modern vendoe would pay Vogue to display his advertisements. The reproductions here illustrate all of these uses of the art form.
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