About This Print
From a set of twenty-eight educational prints issued in 1873 by the Ministry of Education (Monbushō) showing examples of children's good (moral) and bad behavior. In this print a boy who has bloodied the head of another boy is taken in hand by a policeman. In the window above the bad boy sits a reading lamp and books, an indication of how he should better use his time.
Ministry of Education Full-Color Woodblock Prints
The newly formed Ministry of Education issued full-color woodblock prints for childhood education between 1873 and 1885. In addition to prints issued by the Ministry, color woodblock educational prints were also issued by private publishers, such as those of the series Brocade Pictures for Moral Education (錦絵修身談 Nishiki-e shūshindan), a collaborative effort of the artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), his students and the Tokyo publishing house Fukyūsha, issued in 1883 and 1884.
For more information on the color woodblock prints issued by the Ministry of Education see the article Educational Color Woodblock Prints (issued by the Ministry of Education) on this site.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2170 |
| Title or Description | A Boy Who Likes to Fight 争闘を好む童男 Sōtō wo Konomu Warabe |
| Series | from a series of educational prints variously identified in English as Little Child's Pictures for Home Entertainment and Pedagogic Brocade Prints |
| Artist | Utagawa Kuniteru II (1830-1874) [attributed to the school of] |
| Signature | unsigned but attributed to 曜齋國輝 Yōsai Kuniteru (an artist name of Utagawa Kunteru II) by the National Diet Library; to 歌川, 国輝(2代目 1830-1874) Utagawa Kuniteru II by the University of Tsukuba Library and Utagawa Kuniteru II by the Honolulu Museum of Art |
| Seal of the Artist | none |
| Publication Date | 1873 |
| Publisher |  |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - minor soiling; not backed; full or almost full margins |
| Genre | ukiyo-e; kyōiku nishikie [full-color educational prints] |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | ōban |
| H x W Paper | 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm) |
| H x W Image | 13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (34 x 22.5 cm) |
| Literature | |
| Collections This Print | Tokyo Metropolitan Library 086-6(43); National Diet Library Call No. 本別9-25; University of Tsukuba Library; Kumon Museum of Children's Ukiyo-e; Honolulu Museum of Art 31897.22; Edo-Tokyo Museum 93200895; Digital Collections of Keio University Libraries George S.Bonn Collection Call. No. 656;National Institute of Japanese Literature; Smithsonian Libraries (part of bound volume) call number 39088019029404; Tamagawa Academy & University A00002009 |
11/28/2019 (created)
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