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How to Look at Something (Mono o mi yô), from the series Instructions in Manners for Modern Women (Tôryû onna shorei shitsukekata)


「当流女諸礼躾方(しょれいしつけかた) 物の見よう」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.7 cm (14 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15944
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri 2011, #159; the series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), list #2
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15944, 34.411
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.