Japanese Color Woodcuts by Kitagawa Utamaro

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Names: Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 (Printmaker)
Library locations: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Genres: Prints
Notes: Biographical/historical: Ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” is the term used for prints and paintings that portray everyday domestic activities, famous beauties, courtesans, actors, and other scenes and portraits of ordinary life during the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Edo period (1615-1868). Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) specialized in depicting women: well-known courtesans, celebrated beauties of the day, and unknown, ordinary women engaged in their daily activities. The audience for these eroticized and idealized portraits was a rising urban middle class, including those from Edo (now Tokyo), with money to spend on luxuries, like these works of art, which captured the transitory pleasures of life.
Physical Description: Woodcuts
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4b9d7990-c6d3-012f-f07c-58d385a7bc34