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This online exhibition is based on the exhibition being held at the Kalmanovitz Library, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), “Maternal Health and Images of the Body in Japanese Ukiyo-e” (November, 2023 through December, 2024).

Issues regarding how women and their families in the Edo Period experienced pregnancy and childbirth, and how questions of birth control, including abortion and infanticide (referred to as mabiki) were conceptualized, are introduced over the course of this exhibition.

Please feel free to enjoy via the Web the rich variety of expressions of pregnancy, childbirth, and the body itself through visual media dating from the 1820s through the 1880s, or the late-Edo and early-Meiji eras. We have supplied explanations in Japanese, English, and Chinese for your reference.