Two women sharing a bed

Two women sharing a bed

1875 - 1895

color prints (photographs)

Japan; beds (furniture)

Two women posed as sleeping in the same bed. They are sleeping on one futon mat underneath a padded kimono. Around them are furnishings suggestive of domesticity: a folding screen draped with clothing, a chest of drawers, lamp, etc. Turner has added the inscription, "A Japanese lady's bedroom."

Pitts Theology Library

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