Good Luck Comes to Those Who Wait Quietly (Kahô wa nete mate), from the series Precious Children as the Basis for Proverbs (Kodakara tatoe no fushi)

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Good Luck Comes to Those Who Wait Quietly (Kahô wa nete mate), from the series Precious Children as the Basis for Proverbs (Kodakara tatoe no fushi)

「子宝譬の節　かほうは寝てまて」

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; 39 x 25.8 cm (15 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6621

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #199.4; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 169.1.4; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #620; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #275

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenanceJune 1917, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.