Good Upbringing Is More Important than High Birth (Uji yori sodachi), from the series Precious Children as the Basis for Proverbs (Kodakara tatoe no fushi)

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Good Upbringing Is More Important than High Birth (Uji yori sodachi), from the series Precious Children as the Basis for Proverbs (Kodakara tatoe no fushi)

「子宝譬の節　氏よりそだち」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.2 cm (14 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6493

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #199.3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 169.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #619; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #273

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.