"Patriotic Housewives Association" reads the sash across this woman. Her multiple arms are take from Buddhist iconography, most likely a multi-armed form of Kannon, the bodhisattva of mercy and salvation. The objects are symbols of such things as: saving money, hard work, fire defense, frugality, and, of course, the main duty (as far as the state was concerned) for Japanese women: making more Japanese.

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