How to Hold Fish with Chopsticks (Sakana hasamu tei), 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）　肴（さかな）はさむてい」

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; 36.5 x 25.7 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.409

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), list #2

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15950, 34.409

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)