How to Greet an Acquaintance on the Street (Tôri aisatsu no shi yô), from the series Instructions in Manners for Modern Women (Tôryû onna shorei shitsukekata) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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How to Greet an Acquaintance on the Street (Tôri aisatsu no shi yô), from the series Instructions in Manners for Modern Women (Tôryû onna shorei shitsukekata)

How to Greet an Acquaintance on the Street (Tôri aisatsu no shi 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）　とおりあいさつの仕やう」

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; 36.8 x 25.3 cm (14 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)

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

Accession Number34.407

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

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

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15077, 34.407

This unsigned design was formerly attributed to Eisen, but the rest of the series is signed by Kuniyoshi.

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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