The Pennino Collection, 56-63: Women at Work
Permission to use the Pennino Collection
If photos are used for non-commercial educational purposes such as use of the photos in class lectures, students’ presentations, and academic conference presentations, no permission is necessary. Please credit the photos with the sentence: “From the Walter A. Pennino Postwar Japan Photo Collection, courtesy of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” However if the photos are planned to be used in books, newspapers, documentaries, films, and other forms of media and print, the users must write to the Center for Japanese Studies to request permission. In the request, please explain the topic and the type of media/print.
Send inquiries or requests to:
Pennino Photo Collection
Center for Japanese Studies, Moore 216
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-2664
Fax: 808-956-2666
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Photo ID 56
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Woman Shouldering a Basket
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CAPTION: A woman farmer carrying a bamboo basket on her back in which she has some of her harvest, possibly pumpkin.
ADDITIONAL INFO: This photo typifies how a female farmer dressed in early postwar Japan. She is covering her head with a Japanese towel (tenugui), wearing Japanese long pants (monpe), and shouldering a bamboo basket (takekago). The shaft of an agricultural hoe protrudes out from the bamboo basket,. Such a role and style of dress would be difficult to find in Japan today.
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Photo ID 57
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Woman with Buckets
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CAPTION: A woman in kimono and cook’s apron (kappōgi) is carrying hoto liquid, possibly water, in two wooden buckets (oke) on a pole (tenbinbō).
ADDITIONAL INFO: This is a traditional way to carry water or other items. Behind a tree, steam is shooting out, so this place might be close to the spa resort that is shown in the photos of Spa 1 and 2.
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Photo ID 58
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Drying the Harvest
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CAPTION: Two women are attending to the baskets in which they store their harvest.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: These women are probably drying their harvest, perhaps beans. Many bombed out areas of Tokyo were turned into temporary gardens and farms after the war since food rations, even as late as 1949, were often too little to survive on. The piles of bricks and other objects in the photo suggest that this may be such a field. |
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Photo ID 59
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Grain Threshing 1
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CAPTION: A woman is pounding grain with a spinning stick (kururi-bō).
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ADDITIONAL INFO: The tool the woman is holding is used to remove the husks from soybeans (daizu), wheat (mugi), millet (awa), and other husked grains or beans. It is difficult to read in this photograph, but on the right hand pole there is a name and street address. The name on the placard may be Kiyota Shunpei. |
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Photo ID 60
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Grain Threshing 2
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CAPTION: Another shot of the woman pounding grain with a spinning stick (kururi-bō).
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ADDITIONAL INFO: In this picture one can see how the end of the tool spins and why the tool is called kururi-bo: “kururi” of kururi-bō means to rotate or spin, and “bō” of kururi-bo means pole or stick. See Japanese traditional agricultural instruments in a webpage. |
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Photo ID 61
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Craftswoman 1
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CAPTION: A woman in kimono paints a ceramic dish.
ADDITIONAL INFO: The light over the woman may remind some Japanese people of the early postwar period.
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Photo ID 62
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Craftswoman 2
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CAPTION: A young woman is painting or glazing the surface of a small ceramic cup.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: The cups could be either yunomi-chawan (yunomijawan) for green tea or guinomi for sake. Ceramics and other traditional items crafted for export were a major part of Japan’s early post-war economic recovery. Items labeled “Made in Occupied Japan” are popular among collectors today since such products could only have been produced over a short period of time. |
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Photo ID 63
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Craftswoman 3
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CAPTION: Women painting ceramic plates.
ADDITIONAL INFO: The woman on the right appears to be the woman in the photo, Craftswoman 1.
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Permission to use the Pennino Collection
If photos are used for non-commercial educational purposes such as use of the photos in class lectures, students’ presentations, and academic conference presentations, no permission is necessary. Please credit the photos with the sentence: “From the Walter A. Pennino Postwar Japan Photo Collection, courtesy of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” However if the photos are planned to be used in books, newspapers, documentaries, films, and other forms of media and print, the users must write to the Center for Japanese Studies to request permission. In the request, please explain the topic and the type of media/print.
Send inquiries or requests to:
Pennino Photo Collection
Center for Japanese Studies, Moore 216
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone:808-956-2664
Fax: 808-956-2666
