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Utamaro Kitagawa


Image: Portrait of Beauty, Karakoto at Chôji-ya

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Portrait of Beauty, Karakoto at Chôji-ya

late 18th century - ca. 1806
18th/19th century
370 x 242 mm (14.6 x 9.5 in.)

Utamaro Kitagawa, aka Shimbi, Toyoaki, Yûsuke, Yûki Entaisai, Issôshurichôsai, Japanese, (1753–1806)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Color woodcut
Marks: Inscribed, upper left: “Chôji-ya nai” [name of the house], “Karakoto” [name of the beauty]; signed, center left: “Utamaro hitsu” [artist’s name]
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1948
Accession Number: 1948.D2.370

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  • courtesans - Prostitutes who draw their clientele from a court or from the upper classes, and whose services often include social entertaining as well as sexual activity. [January 1993 descriptor added.]
  • portraits - Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness; for representations of fictional or mythological characters, use "figures (representations)." [March 1993 lead-in term added. April 1991 descriptor m
  • Ukiyo-e

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  • image Dimensions: 370 x 242 mm (14.6 x 9.5 in.)

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