The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 25, 2026

A vertically oriented color woodblock print on tan paper depicts a woman on the left lifting a child toward flowering tree branches. She wears a tan and blue patterned robe with her hair in a high bun. On the right, a girl in a salmon robe with a large green sash stands facing away. Several columns of black script flank the figures against the neutral background.

Mother Lifting a Child to a Plum Tree (from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven Year Old Girls of Recent Times)

late 1790s

Kitagawa Utamaro

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
color woodblock print
Sheet: 52.1 x 23.4 cm (20 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1144
Location: Not on view
  • College of Wooster, 1981: Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College.
    Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977: In the Nature of Materials - Japanese Decorative Arts.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.1144