Kitagawa utamaro

1. Three women on a boat
Three Beauties of Yoshiwara
(Seirô san bijin), 1793
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2. A Lover of Children
Mother and Child

3. Games of the Four Seasons Charms of Flowers, c.1782

4. A monkey trainer performing at a noblemans house, c.1788

5. A Man Painting a Woman
A seller of fan-papers ( Jigami-uri )
and a young beauty

6. A woman holding a dog in her arms,
from Five physiognomies of Beauty,
c.1804
Couple with a Standing Screen,
Edo Period, c.1797

7. Beauty just out of the Bath
Ase o fuku onna (woman wiping sweat) -
a wood print of a woman wiping sweat
from her brow, 1798

8. Beauty Reading a Letter
behind the Mosquito Net
Greeting Love Every Night

9. Bijin with Samisen
Flowers of Edo Young Woman's
Narrative Chanting to the Samisen.

10. Courtesans strolling beneath cherry trees

11. Hair Dresser

12. Niwaka
Night Rain, c. 1797

13. Stylish Amusements of the Four Seasons (diptych)

14. Act Eleven from the series The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties
(Komei bijin mitate Chushingura Junimai Kuzuki), c. 1794-95

15. Applying Sizing, from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints,
A Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)
(Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), c. 1803

16. Games of the Four Seasons Charms of Flowers, c.1782

17. Hanazuma of the Hyõgoya
Hanaõgi of the Õgiya

18. Takigawa of the Õgiya
Komurasaki of the Tamaya

19. Osome of the Aburaya teahouse Okita of the Naniwa

20. Tamaya-nai Tagasode,
The courtesan Tagasode
of the Tamaya House
The courtesan Imose of the
Yoshiwara House Akatsuta-ya
parading with her kamuro.

21. The Embankment at Mimeguri

22. The Drunke CourtesanThe Hussy

23. The Lower Class The Middle Class

24. The Õmando Dance The Upper Class

25. Three girls in a clothes shop
Three girls paddling in a river, from the
Fashionable Six Jewelled Rivers,
Yamashiro Province, pub. 1790,

26. Comparison of celebrated beauties and the loyal league, c.1797
Scene 1
Scene 2

27. Comparison of celebrated beauties and the loyal league, c.1797
Scene 3
Scene 4

28. Comparison of celebrated beauties and the loyal league, c.1797
Scene 5
Scene 6

29. Comparison of celebrated beauties and the loyal league, c.1797
Scene 7 Scene 8

30. Comparison of celebrated beauties and the loyal league, c.1797
Scene 9 Scene 10

31. Comparison of celebrated beauties and the loyal league, c.1797
Scene 11 Scene 12

32. Abalone Divers, c. 1797–98

33. At the Ferry-boat Landing, 1743-1806

34. Hinazuru of the Keizetsuro
Ayatsuri moyo take no
hitofushi Awa no Naruto

35. Cherry Blossom Banquet (Ôka no utage)

36. Chinese Beauties at a Banquet, 1788–90

37. Snow, Moon and Flowers in the
Pleasure Quarters (Seiro setsugekka) -
Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya with
Attendants Shirabe and Teriha
Takigawa of the Ogiya (Ogiya uchi
Takigawa, Onami, Menami, Kisagawa,
Hanamichi, Himekawa, Kumegawa), 1793

38. Drums and ShamisenThe three models
O-Hisa, O-Kita and O-Hina.

39. Hyakkaen, c. 1788–90

40. Kisegawa of the Matsubaya
A Geisha and Her Maid

41. The Kitchen, c. 1794-1795

42. Susuhaki (House Cleaning), 1792

43. Somenosuke of the MatsubayaTakashima Ohisa, c. 1793
The Greatest Beauties of Our Time (Toji zensei bijin zoroe)

44. Pleasure-boating on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa funa-asobi), c. 1788-90

45. Behind the Sudare
Mosquito-net, from the series
Model Young Women in Mist
(Kasumi-ori musume hinagata)
(Kaya), c. 1794-95

46. On top and beneath Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi no ue, shita), c. 1795-6

47. Preparing a Meal, c. 1798–99
Women Preparing Gion Bean Curd,
from the series Twelve Types of Women’s
Handicraft (Fujin tewaza jûni-kô),
c. 1798–99

48. Beauty with Pipe
Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe,
from the series Ten Classes of Women’s
Physiognomy (Fujo ninsô juppon),
c. 1792–93

49. Yosooi of the Matsubaya Tomimoto Toyohina, c. 1794

50. The Scoop-net, c. 1800-01

51. Under an Umbrella, c. 1797

52. Seiro niwaka
Seiro niwaka zensei asobi-
Hana no mitsugi sorou tebyoshi,

53. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Utamaro_Kitag
awa.html
Kitagawa Utamaro Biography
Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1753 - 1806) (the name has
occasionally been rendered as Outamaro, but that usage
is archaic) was a Japanese printmaker and painter, and is
considered one of the greatest artists of ukiyo-e. He is
known especially for his masterfully composed studies of
women, known as bijin-ga, although he also produced
nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
His work reached Europe in the mid 19th century, where it
was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France.
He influenced the European Impressionists, particularly
with his use of partial views, with an emphasis on light
and shade.

54. Here is a partial list of his print series, with dates:
Chosen Poems (1791-1792)
Ten Types of Women's Physiognomies (1792-1793)
Famous Beauties of Edo (1792-1793)
Ten Learned Studies of Women (1792-1793)
Anthology of Poems: The Love Section (1793-1794)
Snow, Moon and Flowers of the Green Houses (1793-1795)
Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (1794)
Twelve Hours of the Green Houses (1794-1795)
Flourishing Beauties of the Present Day (1795-1797)
An Array of Passionate Lovers (1797-1798)
Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy (1802)