The Children’s Instructor in Etiquette

(Kodomo shorei shitsuke-gata, 子供諸礼躾方)

Publisher: Murata-ya Jirôbei

c. 1840

This series shows children modeling proper behavior.  The series is listed as number 136 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).  The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this series.

	Modeled behaviors: Handling a folding screen (屏風のたてやう) and adjusting a shôji screen (障子の明たてしやう)
	A simplified state of the above design without patterning in the title cartouche
	Modeled behaviors: Hanging a scroll (掛物かけやう) and arranging flowers inside the home (立花生花見やう)
	A simplified state of the above design without patterning in the title cartouche
	Modeled behaviors: Correct posture when dinning (膳での食事のしかた) and bowing when serving a meal (給仕のしかた)
	I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this simplified state of the above design without patterning in the title cartouche.
	Modeled behaviors: Receiving a sake cup (sakazuki itadaku, 盞いたゞく) and making an offering on a sanbo tray (sanpô dashiyau, 三宝出しやう)
	Modeled behaviors: Peeling a melon (uri no mukiyau, う里のむきやう)

“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

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