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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 ...
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Utamaro then went on to produce several series of well-known works, all featuring women of the Yoshiwara district. Over the years, he also created a number of volumes of animal, insect, and nature studies and shunga, or erotica. Shunga prints were quite acceptable in Japanese culture, not associated with a negative concept of pornography as ...
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]
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).
The Luggage Store Gallery was founded by Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer, and they serve as co-directors. [3] The 509 Cultural Center at 509 Ellis Street began in 1987 as an arts collective of 17 members many of which were connected to the Aarti Cooperative Hotel at 391 Leavenworth Street. [ 4 ]
Three Beauties of the Present Day (当時三美人, Tōji San Bijin) is a nishiki-e colour woodblock print from c. 1792–93 by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753 –1806). The triangular composition depicts the profiles of three celebrity beauties of the time: geisha Tomimoto Toyohina, and teahouse waitresses Naniwaya Kita and ...
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