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Kitao Shigemasa

Also known as: Shigemasa, Kitao, Kitabatake Shigemasa, Kyûgorô, Hekisui, Hokuhô, Hokusu Dempu, Ichiyôsei, Itsujin, Karan, Kôsuifu, Kôsuiken, Kôsuisai, Kyûkaikyo, Shigureoka Itsumin, Suihô, Tairei
Date of birth: 1739
Date of death: 1820

Artworks

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The Maple Festival (Momiji no ga) from chapter 7 of The Tale of Genji, early 1760s
Kitao Shigemasa
Courtesans of Maruya, from the book “Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami),” vol. 2, 1776
Kitao Shigemasa
Courtesans of the Shin Kanaya, from the series “Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami),” vol. 2, 1776
Kitao Shigemasa
Courtesans of Ogiya, from the book “Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami),” vol. 1, 1776
Kitao Shigemasa
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Owata in the play “Taiheiki Shizunome Furisode,” performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1767, 1767
Kitao Shigemasa
Boy as Hotei, from an untitled series of children as the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, 1780s
Kitao Shigemasa
The Big Snowman, c. 1764
Kitao Shigemasa
No. 5: Noda River in Mutsu Province, from the series “Six Jewel Rivers of the Floating World (Ukiyo Mu Tamagawa)”, c. 1769
Kitao Shigemasa
Clearing Breeze from a Fan (Ogi no seiran), c. 1772
Kitao Shigemasa
Ono no Tofu Watching a Leaping Frog, early 1760s
Kitao Shigemasa
The Treasure Ship, c. 1778
Kitao Shigemasa
Flower Arranging, c. 1769
Kitao Shigemasa

Exhibition Closed
Foreign Faces in Japanese Prints
Jan 20–Apr 8, 2007

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