100910-0023 - Elementary School Students

Japanese elementary school students studying writing in a classroom.

This image is part of “The School Life of Young Japan” (No 4), a series published by Japanese photographer Kozaburo Tamamura in the early 1900s (late Meiji).

Original text: “Girls, of about the same age, studying ‘penmanship.’ N.B.—The Japanese write with a brush, excepting when learning to write in English.”