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; 36.7 x 25.9 cm (14 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

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

Accession Number34.411

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

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