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Kitagawa Utamaro

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Triptych Japanese woodblock print of courtly women and attendants under cherry trees, with a seated man and a parasol.

A View of the Pleasures of the Taiko and His Five Wives at Rakutō

1804

Triptych print of women at a merry evening party, playing koto and shamisen, a board game, and sweets before a pine screen.

A Merry Evening Party

ca. 1805

Triptych woodblock print of women picking persimmons from a tree beside a bamboo lattice gate, in kimono.

Picking Persimmons (Kaki-mogi)

ca. 1802-4

Japanese woodblock print of figures in kimono, one raising a wooden staff, with two kneeling women and an inset scene.

Chushingura Act III

ca. 1800

Japanese print of conch, clam and other seashells scattered on sand, with calligraphic verses written above.

Shells under Water

1790

Woodblock print of women in kimono playing a shell game on a veranda beside a peony screen and pine bonsai.

Girls Playing a Game with Shells

1790

Woodblock print of a child lighting fireworks under willows while women with a baby and a fan look on.

A Child Lighting Fireworks, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons

1801

Woodblock print of women in kimono gathering green leaves into baskets in a grassy field, with a child crouching nearby.

Girls Picking Green Leaves, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons

1801

Woodblock print of women in kimono playing with a ball on a veranda, with a child and a blossoming plum branch nearby.

New Year's Games, from the printed book Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shiki no hana)

1801

Woodblock print of women watching a performer with a drum, a standing woman in patterned kimono, and cranes near a pine tree.

Girls Entertained by Performers, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons

1801

Woodblock print of a standing man in a striped robe and a kneeling woman in a dotted kimono with hairpins.

Parting of Lovers: Courtesan and Her Lover

ca. 1800

Woodblock print of women working in a kitchen beside a wooden steamer, kettle and brazier, with rising steam.

Kitchen Scene

ca. 1794-95

Woodblock print of women in kimono on a veranda leaning over a railing to view cherry blossoms, with parasols below.

Viewing Cherry Blossoms

1790

Woodblock print of two women in kimono in a kitchen, one holding a tea cup by steaming kettle, one smoking a pipe.

In the Kitchen

ca. 1794-95

Triptych woodblock print of women bathing and fishing on a rocky shore with stylized waves, by Kitagawa Utamaro.

Girl Fishers and Bathers

1791

Japanese print of women in kimono wading in the sea before a rising red sun between two rocks linked by a sacred rope.

Women Worshipping the Rising Sun between the Twin Rocks at Ise

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of women gathering abalone on a rocky shore beside woven baskets and waves.

The Awabi Fishers

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono and a man by a river with mountains and birds.

Women and a Man in the Country; Some pageant(?)

Triptych woodblock print of women and children by a stream, with flowering shrubs and rushing water.

Women and Children on the Banks of a Stream

Woodblock print of two women by the sea: one nude with a red cloth, one seated in a kimono holding an abalone shell over a ba

Abalone Divers

1788

Triptych print of three courtesans in patterned kimono with chrysanthemums and latticed screens, by Kitagawa Utamaro.

Three Intoxicated Courtesans

1790s

Woodblock print of two boatmen poling a boat on a snowy river past a shrine and pine trees.

Book of Ehon Ginsekai (The World in Silver)

1754-1806

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a woman with hair pins holding a child in orange kimono, with a reclining man below.

Sankatsu and Hanshichi

ca. 1800

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle, yellow hairpins, and a green checkered kimono.

A Courtesan

Woodblock print of an old man in orange slipping a letter into a young woman's red kimono sleeve, with irises at her feet.

“The Poet Sōjō Henjō (816-890) Slipping a Letter into a Woman’s Sleeve,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the…

ca. 1798

Woman in a dark kimono holding a pipe beside a patterned folding screen, Japanese woodblock print.

The Hour of the Ox (1 A.M.-3 A.M.)

ca. 1794

Ukiyo-e print of a man in a black robe holding the wrist of a woman in a green kimono who looks up at him.

The Lovers Oshichi and Kichisaburo

ca. 1800

Woodblock print of a seated woman with hairpins and a standing figure in a patterned robe, with a landscape vignette above.

Shared Feelings in the Bedchamber of Komurasaki and Gompachi

ca. 1795

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle and a child reaching up to her robe, with teal cloth behind.

Woman and Child

ca. 1795

Woman in patterned kimono holding a lacquer tray with a tea bowl, with calligraphy at upper left, Japanese woodblock print.

Okita of the Naniwaya Teahouse

ca. 1793

Azumaya no Hana

ca. 1790

Woodblock print of a reclining woman with a cherry at her lips and a red-faced child leaning over her shoulder.

Yamauba and Kintarō Playing with a Cherry

ca. 1795