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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 ...
Utamaro is less known for his paintings (nikuhitsu-ga) than for the large number of woodblock prints he produced, [6] of which about 2,000 are known. [7] 53 of his paintings are known, many of which have been discovered only in the 21st century. Utamaro's paintings have received relatively little critical attention. [6]
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 ...
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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]
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Shunga (春画) is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. [1] Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex. [1]