No Matter What You Do Someone Will Hear and Talk

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Title	No Matter What You Do Someone Will Hear and Talk
Artist	Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Date	c. 1842
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Medium:

Prints, Print | Color woodblock print

Size:

14 11/16 x 5 1/16 in. (37.3 x 12.9 cm) (image, sheet)

Creation Place:

Asia, Japan

Culture:

Asia, Japan

Style:

19th century, Edo period

Inscriptions:

Now matter what you doAnd you think nobaby knowThere is a mouth in the sky talking to youThere is a ear on the wall hearing you;the last half is something about stealing, letters are illegible(Nani shi ki woHito wa shiranu toOmoe do moTen ni kuchi ariKabe ni mimi ariNusumi wo suru hito to te???) Ichiyu_sai Kuniyoshi

Physical Description:

nishiki-e, tanzaku-e

Credit:

Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr.

Accession Number:

P.75.51.278

Artist:

Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Japanese, 1797 - 1861

Role:

Artist

Nationality:

Japanese

Life Dates:

Japanese, 1797 - 1861

Added to Site:

February 28, 2009

No Matter What You Do Someone Will Hear and Talk

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

c. 1842