A recently discovered painting by Kitagawa Utamaro (around 1753-1806) is due to go on show for the first time this week at the British Museum. The hanging scroll from around 1805-06 shows a ...

Kitagawa Utamaro's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 5 USD to 675,574 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price ...

Utamaro was renowned for his bijinga woodblock prints, depicting beautiful women of his day, and other artworks that won the hearts of the people of Edo (now Tokyo).

Kitagawa Utamaro was a renowned Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints and his contribution to the ukiyo-e art movement. View Kitagawa Utamaro’s 1,975 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth ...

In the time of Japan’s last feudal military government, ruled by the Tokugawa clan from 1603 to 1867, the government licensed “pleasure quarters,” where courtesans practiced prost… ...

JULIE NELSON DAVIS Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. 296 pp.; 66 color ills., 1 14 b/w. $65.00 Woodcut prints and illustrated books by the Japanese artist ...

Snow at Fukagawa by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806), Japan, Edo period, ca. 1802–6 Okada Museum of Art Moon at Shinagawa (also known as Moonlight Revelry at Dozō Sagami) by Kitagawa Utamaro ...

The rediscovered work is one of Utamaro's earliest ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and is believed to have been created around 1792 to 1793, during the Kansei era (1789-1801).

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building ...

Other notable works include Kitagawa Utamaro’s “Kaya no Tanoshimi” (Pleasure on a summer night) and “Kaika no Higi" (Sexual conduct downstairs). The large hand-drawn paintings were later ...

A recently discovered painting by Kitagawa Utamaro (around 1753-1806) is due to go on show for the first time this week at the British Museum. The hanging scroll from around 1805-06 shows a ...