This primary source is an ink artwork and was made on an ink scroll by Hanabusa Itchô who was born in Taga Shinkô. This shows that it is a reliable source as it is made by someone who was in that period and was Japanese. It is also a reliable source, as the artist would have had the perspective from a Japanese person as he was born in Taga Shinkô in Japan. This would mean that he would have seen the children first hand and would know what went on around Japan and what was a day-to-day activity. He is a Japanese artist of the early Tokugawa period shogunate japan. This source was produced in the 18th century.
This artwork is about happy young children running up to an entertainer’s puppet show. This would be useful to a historian investigating how children were treated in Shogunate Japan, as it is an artwork of two young children both boy and girl and they are going up to the adults with a box of puppets. This then portrays the message that the children would go to puppet shows as an activity. This shows that the children were treated with care. This source also depicts that both boys and girls were treated equally as they are both together and are doing the same thing. Some would say that this source shows that Japan is a children’s paradise as the children are smiling and are happy, they look like they have nothing to worry about and they aren’t skinny which shows that they are cared very well for. The girl half hidden behind the bars in the back of the artwork looks like she is in the upper-class and prevented from playing in the streets like the middle class children. This would definitely be useful to historians, as it would show that the upper-class children were 'protected' from the streets and the other children. This girl would be depicted as an upper class child as the very good gate suggests that she would be in a well-to-do merchant house.
This primary source would be a very useful and reliable source to investigate how children were treated in shogunate Japan. It is reliable as the artist created the painting in the Tokugawa period and was from Japan. This source is useful as it gives us a very good understanding of what a day-to-day activity was in Japan. It is also very useful, as it not only depicts boys but girls as well. This source is very useful as it shows us how the different classes of children were treated.
This artwork is about happy young children running up to an entertainer’s puppet show. This would be useful to a historian investigating how children were treated in Shogunate Japan, as it is an artwork of two young children both boy and girl and they are going up to the adults with a box of puppets. This then portrays the message that the children would go to puppet shows as an activity. This shows that the children were treated with care. This source also depicts that both boys and girls were treated equally as they are both together and are doing the same thing. Some would say that this source shows that Japan is a children’s paradise as the children are smiling and are happy, they look like they have nothing to worry about and they aren’t skinny which shows that they are cared very well for. The girl half hidden behind the bars in the back of the artwork looks like she is in the upper-class and prevented from playing in the streets like the middle class children. This would definitely be useful to historians, as it would show that the upper-class children were 'protected' from the streets and the other children. This girl would be depicted as an upper class child as the very good gate suggests that she would be in a well-to-do merchant house.
This primary source would be a very useful and reliable source to investigate how children were treated in shogunate Japan. It is reliable as the artist created the painting in the Tokugawa period and was from Japan. This source is useful as it gives us a very good understanding of what a day-to-day activity was in Japan. It is also very useful, as it not only depicts boys but girls as well. This source is very useful as it shows us how the different classes of children were treated.