The Anne brand mentioned in the essay.Cameo (Japan & the U.K., 1960s-1970s?) Box, tampon, ad. It's the same as Ortex Gold and Anshin. (Tambrands gift, 1997)
Cellopon (Japan, 1968) Box, instructions, tampons. No applicator. With a discussion of the mutual influence of European and Japanese art & an example from Van Gogh. (Generous gift from Tambrands, 1997)
Elldy (Japan) tampon with finger cots (like Anne, above), box - ad in Junie magazine (October 1996) - instructions from 2011 a Hispanic woman in Japan sent.
Emil (Japan, 1974) box with tampons & instructions. (Gift from Tambrands)
Early Japanese ads for menstrual belts, part 1 (part 2, 3)
Japan influences England influences Japan: artist Aubrey Beardsley
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See
the original
Museum of Menstruation,
a cartoon visit,
the museum's future,
and reaction
to it and this site.
The picture above I adapted from a design on a Japanese lacquer writing box,
about 1850-1900, at the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art And Culture,
San Francisco, California.
The Origin of Menstrual Leave in Japan
Essay by Hiromi Mizuno
For Professor Sandra Lee Bartky
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Pages 5-6, (first 2 pages & Introduction)
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fist "first"
member members
1919: few women in labor unions
hard to organize women
1925: Peace Preservation Law prohibited women's political activities
menstruation leave, representing working women's reality, became a symbol of women's liberation
all women activists supported WWII
Footnotes refer to publications listed on page 20.
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"[I]t is not surprising that the democracy introduced by the SCAP was applauded especially by women workers."
women and men could now vote, organize workers. Unions formed
"Menstruation leave was again supported by women union workers. ... [The] first sanitary napkin was not introduced to Japanese women until as late as 1961."
menstruation leave not taken from Western women's movements, own invention
Footnotes refer to publications listed on page 20.
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I think the writer means the first commercial disposable napkin. Japanese Commercial and homemade napkins existed long before.
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