Women's Factory - Jokoba

Japanese: 女紅場(女工場) - じょこうば

In the early Meiji period, this mainly meant simple educational institutions that taught girls handicrafts such as sewing, weaving, bag making, and oshie painting, as well as the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and etiquette. These handicrafts were also called "jokou," so they were called "jokoba," but there were also places called "jokou factories" and "jokou training schools." In the early Meiji period, when the school system was not yet established, they spread to a certain extent, mainly in the Kansai region. However, some of the jokoba were equivalent to secondary education institutions, such as the Kyoto Prefectural Jokoba, which was established in 1872 (Meiji 5), where a British female teacher taught English and also taught jokou.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

明治初期，女子に裁縫，機織，袋物，押絵などの手芸をさずけ，あわせて読･書･算の初歩や礼法を教えた簡易な教育機関を主としていう。これらの手芸を〈女紅〉とも称したので，女紅場といわれたが，〈女工場〉〈女紅伝習所〉などといったところもある。学校制度が未整備であった明治初期に，関西を中心に一定の普及をみた。しかし女紅場のなかには，1872年(明治5)に設立された京都府立女紅場のように，イギリス人女教師による英語の教授とともに女紅をさずけるなど，中等教育機関に相当するものもあった。

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