Modern Fashionable Methods of Training Women in Decorum

(Tôryû onna shorei shitsuke kata, 當流女諸禮躾方)

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

c. 1830

 

This series is listed as number 2 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 Ward Pieters for assisting with this series.

 

 

How to Look at Something (Mono o mi yô, 物の見よう)

 

How to Accept a Cup of Saké  (Sakazuki itadaku tei, さけずきいただくてい)

 

How to Put on a Kosode (small sleeve robe) (小袖きがへ様, Kosode kigae yô)

Description: Woman at Daishichi restauant wearing the restaurant’s checkered kosode

 

NOTE: Daishichi was a restaurant near Mukojima Shrine which rented out checkered yukata, so patrons could bathe and eat while relaxing. 

 

How to Board a Boat (Funanori yô)

 

Another state of the above print

 

How to Hold Fish with Chopsticks (Sakana hasamu tei, 肴はさむてい)

 

 

 

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

 

Another state of the above design courtesy of Marc DeVriese

 

How to Greet a Guest (Kyakujin e aisatsu no shi yô, きゃくじんへあいさつの仕やう)

 

How to Meet Guests

 

How to Go In and Out of shôji Doors (Shôji no ideiri no shi yô)

 

How to Fold a Jacket (はおりたゝ みやう, Haori tatami yô)

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