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Utamaro’s “Three Beauties of the Present Day” (c.1793) is a significant Japanese woodcut from the Edo period. The artwork showcases three celebrated women, a style known as bijin-ga which became widely influential in ukiyo-e prints. These portraits established a recognizable format for depicting and...
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Canonical Utamaro beauty print, widely reproduced and central to ukiyo-e portraiture.
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Kitagawa Utamaro’s “Ohisa of the Takashimaya” is a woodcut from around 1793. It portrays Ohisa, a renowned waitress at a Tokyo teahouse, showcasing Utamaro's skill in bijin-ga portraiture. The work exemplifies the Edo period’s fascination with idealized feminine beauty and is appreciated by art hist...
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Important Utamaro okubi-e, elegant and influential, but less iconic than Three Beauties.
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