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Collection Online as of December 22, 2025

Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women

c. 1798
(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Sheet: 38.8 x 25.2 cm (15 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
  • Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正 [1853–1906], Paris, France
    ?–1921
    Julio E. van Canegham, Paris, France, consigned to Walpole Galleries for sale
    March 3, 1921
    (Walpole Galleries, New York, NY, March 3, 1921 sale, "Rare and valuable Japanese color prints: including the collection of Julio E. van Caneghem of Paris," lot 259)
    1921
    (Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1921–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 54 archive.org
    Milliken, William Mathewson, Theodore Sizer, Rossiter Howard, and Frederick Allen Whiting. “In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 4 (April 1926): 63–91. Reproduced: p. 79 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 67 archive.org
  • Ways of Drawing Faces. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945).
    Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934).
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