Collections: Asian Art: Dressing a Boy on the Occasion of His First Letting His Hair Grow

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Dressing a Boy on the Occasion of His First Letting His Hair Grow

Among the most popular Japanese prints in the West were the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ukiyo-e (literally "pictures of the floating world"), which depicted urban leisure pursuits, everyday life, and famous landscapes. Such prints presented Western artists with radically new approaches to figuration and compositional design in their flattening of three-dimensional forms, expressive stylization of the human body, and emphasis on decorative lines and patterns.

• Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese, 1753-1806
• Medium: Wood block color print
• Place Made: Japan
• Dates: ca. 1795
• Period: Edo Period
• Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (39.3 x 27 cm)
• Markings: Publisher's seal: Murataya, Jirobei
• Signature: Utamaro fude
• Collections: Asian Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 16.522
• Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund
• Image: Overall, 16.522_IMLS_SL2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806). Dressing a Boy on the Occasion of His First Letting His Hair Grow, ca. 1795. Wood block color print, 15 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (39.3 x 27 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 16.522 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.522_IMLS_SL2.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: From the series "Shichigosan kodakara awase," the Japanese title of this image is "Hakama-e-no-zu" or "His First Pantaloons."