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Courtesans beneath Wisteria Arbor by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

Courtesans beneath Wisteria Arbor

Courtesans beneath Wisteria Arbor

Kitagawa Utamaro

1790–1800

Medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych
Genre: woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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printasian artJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1796

Rikiya and Konami, from the series A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku hiyoku no bangumi)

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789

Pipe, from the series Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women (Fujin sogaku juttai) (Kiseru)

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Geisha (Geigi), from the series “Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties" ("Tosei bijin san’yu")

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1795

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1793

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The Lady Tomimoto Toyohina Reading a Letter

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790

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