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Kitagawa Utamaro

Also known as: Utamaro, Kitagawa Shimbi, Toriyama Shimbi, Toyoaki (Hôshô), Yûsuke, Yûki, Entaisai, Issôshurichôsai, Mokuen, Sekiyô, Murasakiya, Shibaya, Hôshô, 喜多川歌麿
Date of birth: 1753
Date of death: 1806

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Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi), c. 1800
Kitagawa Utamaro
Goldfish, from the series “Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)”, c. 1802
Kitagawa Utamaro
Drawing Lots for Prizes (Ho biki), c. 1798
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Courtesan Arihara of the Tsuruya, and Child Attendants Aoe and Sekiya (Tsuruya uchi Arihara, Aoe, Sekiya), from an untitled series of courtesans, c. 1797
Kitagawa Utamaro
A Test of Skill - the Headwaters of Amorousness (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami): Osan and Mohei, n.d.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Takashima Ohisa, c. 1795
Kitagawa Utamaro
Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask, c. 1801/04
Kitagawa Utamaro
A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter” (“Hokkoku goshiki-zumi”), c. 1794/95
Kitagawa Utamaro
Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku), About 1803
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya, c. 1797
Kitagawa Utamaro
Mirror, from the series “Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places” (“Meisho koshikake hakkei”), c. 1795/96
Kitagawa Utamaro
Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe, from the series “Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon)”, c. 1792/93
Kitagawa Utamaro

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