The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 10, 2026

A vertically oriented color woodblock print depicts three figures with light skin tones in patterned robes. At our right, a woman with elaborate hair ornaments looks toward a wooden bookstand. In the center, a youth in a brown garment sits on a low platform, supporting a child in pink robes who raises a white chrysanthemum flower. Vertical Japanese calligraphy accents the upper right on the aged, textured paper.

Bunraku Puppetry from the series Competition of Precious Children Proud of their Arts, Among Seven Scrolls

1805

Kitagawa Utamaro II

(Japanese, d. 1831?)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
color woodblock print
36 x 26.4 cm (14 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.1033
Location: Not on view
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.1033