Genuine Instruction for Children in Mad Pictures

(Jitsu go-kyô kyôgwa dôgaku, 實語教狂画童学)

Publisher: Arita-ya Seiemon

c. 1840

 

This series is listed as 118 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).  The images are each about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 centimeters), a size known as chûban.  Two images were printed on a sheet of paper about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

 

 

 

Top:

Bottom: Father and Mother are like Heaven and Earth (Fubo wa tenchi no gotoshi)

 

Top: Senryo no kogane wo tsumu to iedomo ichinichi no gaku ni wa shirazu, Kyodai tsune ni awazu, jihi wo kyodai to nasu (雖積千両金不知一日学)

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I am grateful to Michael O'Clair for this image.

 

 

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