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In the mid-18th century full-colour nishiki-e prints became common, printed using a large number of woodblocks, one for each colour. [ 2 ] Kitagawa Utamaro ( c. 1753 –1806) began designing prints in the 1770s; made his name in the 1790s with his bijin ōkubi-e ("large-headed pictures of beautiful women") portraits, focusing on the head and ...
Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798 Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: 喜多川 歌麿; c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist.
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Utamaro had the hexaptych Enoshima Yūryō Awabi-tori no Zu (江之嶋遊りょうあわびとりの図, "Abalone divers hunting in Enoshima") published in the c. 1791. [23] Each koban-sized [24] vertical print measures about 19 by 12 centimetres (7 in × 5 in) and is signed Utamaro hitsu (哥麿筆, "the brush of Utamaro"). [23]
On Top and Beneath Ryōgoku Bridge, Utamaro, multicolour woodblock print on handmade washi paper, c. 1795–96, 75 by 60 centimetres (30 in × 24 in). On Top and Beneath Ryōgoku Bridge (両国橋上下 Ryōgoku-bashi ue-shita) is a picture made up of six prints designed by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Utamaro and published in c. 1795–96.
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English: "Aquatic monsters and a diver woman." (Kappa to Ama). A page from the erotic shunga book Utamakura.In this illustration from 1788, a female diver (ama) is seen sitting on a rock, watching her partner have sex with two aquatic monsters (kappa).
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