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The Making of Silk Floss by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

The Making of Silk Floss

The Making of Silk Floss

Kitagawa Utamaro

1780–1800

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
Genre: Prints
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Chidori-gai, itaya-gai, awabi, utsuse-gai, asari-gai, and monoara-gai, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)"

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1792

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790

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The Ninth Month (Kugatsu), from an untitled series of genre scenes in the twelve months, with kyoka poems

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Hawk on a Plum Branch

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1791

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Poetry, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons

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