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Here we see a Japanese mother and her two childrm in their garden. Their home in in the background. They are clearly a well-to-do family if not rich. Not very many Japanese families lived in surondings like this. Japan had a rich elite and thanks to industrialization a rising middleclass. This was, however, a smaller part of the population than other industrial countries. A substantial part of the population still lived in rural areas and were part of the still important, but not very efficent, agricultural economy. Here we see the familiy, including the boy, wearing traditional garments such as kimonos. Wearing traditional garments at home seams a common convention in the early-20th century as Japan was modernizing. Traditional garments were also worn for some formal events. We do not see father, presumably dad took the portraiut. Tere is some information on the back of the portrait. We can not read it as it is in Japanese. Hopefully our Japanese readers will translate for us. We only know that the portait was taken in 1911 (meiji 44 year) and the studio was Dokuritsu-ken.
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