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Kitagawa Utamaro
Sign in to saveAlso known as Utamaro, Outamaro, Nobuyoshi Kitagawa, Entaisai, Toyoaki, Utamaro Kitagawa, Ichitarō, Toyoaki Kitagawa
thumb|Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798 thumb|Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
Key facts
- Artist.name
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Artist.image
- Kitagawa Utamaro portrait (cropped).jpg
- Artist.caption
- Portrait by Eishi, 1815
- Artist.native_name_lang
- Japanese
- Artist.birth_name
- Kitagawa Ichitarō
- Artist.death_place
- Edo
- Artist.style
- Ukiyo-e
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Edo
- Place of death
- Edo
- Occupation
- graphic artist
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- Three Beauties of the Present Day
- Student of
- Toriyama Sekien
- Field of work
- erotic art
- Genre
- shunga
- Movement
- ukiyo-e
- Image
- Kitagawa Utamaro portrait (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1754-01-01
- Commons category
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- date of death
- 1806-10-31
- Commons Creator page
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Commons gallery
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- name in kana
- きたがわ うたまろ
- name in native language
- 喜多川 歌麿
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- art name
- 筆綾丸
- birth name
- 北川 市太郎
- start of work period
- 1770-00-00
- influenced by
- Torii Kiyonaga
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Two Women
Daikokuten, aus der Serie: Gruppe der sieben schönen Glücksgöttinen
Ochiyo und Hanbei, aus der Serie: Programm mit Melodien ewiger Liebe
Kleiderwechsel bei der Hochzeit, ein Triptychon
Verzücktes Paar, Blatt 5 aus der Serie: Erzählungen über die Schönheiten
Hochzeit, ein Triptychon
Hinamatsuri, Sheet 2 from the series: The Five Festivals
Couple in love
The Poet
Jurōjin, aus der Serie: Gruppe der sieben schönen Glücksgöttinen
Mother with child, high, high!
Bonsai mit Yamabuki (Kerria-Rose)
Die Mutter, aus der Serie: Zweiseitige Worte der Blume
Osome und Hisamatsu, aus der Serie: Modische Muster nach Utamaro
Das Aufhängen der Wäsche mit Blick auf den Fuji
Heimweg vom Betrachten der Kirschblüten
Woman with opened Yukata, from the series: Ten types of female physiognomy
The Tamagawa in Kōya, from the series: The six crystal rivers
Yamauba und Kintaro, aus der Serie: Die Tugend der japanischen volkstümlichen Musik und Gesang
Das Chiyozuru Teehaus
Three Women
Benzaiten, aus der Serie: Gruppe der sieben schönen Glücksgöttinen
Passende Sitten für moderne Schönheiten
Bonsai in Schale mit Blumen
Narihira bewundert die Kiefern in Sumiyoshi, aus dem Ise monogatari
The courtesan Hinazuru from the Choji-ya as Kinkō, from the series: The eight immortals of love art
Narihira neben dem verschlossenen kaiserlichen Zweiradwagen, aus dem Ise monogatari
Die Schöne aus Takanawa
The hour of the snake - concubine, from the series: The times with genre beauties
Bishamonten, aus der Serie: Gruppe der sieben schönen Glücksgöttinen
Courtesans, The Amusement of the Seven Gods of Fortune
Fukurokuju, aus der Serie: Gruppe der sieben schönen Glücksgöttinen
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Background
- Biography
- Early life
- Apprenticeship and early work
- Height of fame
- Later life
- Arrest of 1804
- Death
- Pupils
- Analysis
- Legacy
- Historiography
- Print series
- Paintings
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798 thumb|Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
Little is known of Utamaro's life. His work began to appear in the 1770s, and he rose to prominence in the early 1790s with his portraits of beauties with exaggerated, elongated features. He produced over 2000 known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime. In 1804 he was arrested and manacled for fifty days for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kitagawa Utamaro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (26)
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