Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese, 1753–1806
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese Romanticism artist. 237 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them ink works. Kitagawa Utamaro was born in Kawagoe.
Japanese, ca. 1754–1806
Works by Kitagawa Utamaro
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実競色乃美名家見 三浦屋小紫 白井権八|The Lovers Miura-ya Komurasaki and Shirai Gonpachi.
行水|Bathtime (Gyōzui)
名君 閨中の粧ひ|The Oiran Yoso-oi Seated at Her Toilet
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『五色染六歌仙』 在原業平と小野小町|“The Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) and Ono no Komachi,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)
風俗美人時計 子ノ刻 妾|Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child
『五色染六歌仙』 僧正遍昭|“The Poet Sōjō Henjō (816–890) Slipping a Letter into a Woman’s Sleeve,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)
山姥と金太郎|Yamauba and Kintarō Playing with a Cherry
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『青楼七小町』 「玉屋内花紫」|“Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya,” from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō Nana Komachi)
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- 『五色染六歌仙』 在原業平と小野小町|“The Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) and Ono no Komachi,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)
- 風俗美人時計 子ノ刻 妾|Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child
- 『五色染六歌仙』 僧正遍昭|“The Poet Sōjō Henjō (816–890) Slipping a Letter into a Woman’s Sleeve,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)
- 山姥と金太郎|Yamauba and Kintarō Playing with a Cherry
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- 『青楼七小町』 「玉屋内花紫」|“Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya,” from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō Nana Komachi)
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