Title: Calligraphy Practice (Tenarai)
Object type: Screen
Date: 1909
Culture: Japan
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Artist:  Ikeda Shōen 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1886–1917
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Two-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions: Image: 50 × 56 5/16 in. (127 × 143 cm)
Overall: 67 × 69 1/2 in. (170.2 × 176.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Purchase, Sachiko and Lawrence Goodman Gift, 2023
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Boys, term: Women, term: Toys, term: Calligraphy, term: Brushes