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Wisteria Maiden with an Ōtsu Demon Dressed as an Itinerant Monk, from the series Souvenir Paintings from Ōtsu, Stocked in Edo (Edo Shi-ire Ōtsu Miyage)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper · 1802
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper · 1801
Cleveland Museum of Art
Catching a mouse
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color · 1800
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
“Preparing Food for the Warbler,” from the album Men’s Stamping Dance (Otoko dōka, uguisu no esa suri)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Page from a woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper · 1798
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Goldfish, from the series "Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)"
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock print; oban · 1797
Art Institute of Chicago
Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (center)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Triptych: color woodblock print · 1796
Cleveland Museum of Art
Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (left)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Triptych: color woodblock print · 1796
Cleveland Museum of Art
Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (right)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
triptych: color woodblock print · 1796
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Courtesans Kasugano and Utahama of Tamaya, from Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
color woodblock print · 1795
Cleveland Museum of Art
Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock print; hashira-e · 1795
Art Institute of Chicago
In the Kitchen
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Right-hand sheet of a diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · 1794
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock print; oban · 1794
Art Institute of Chicago
Takigawa of the Ōgiya from the series A Selection of Eastern Beauties
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
color woodblock print · 1793
Cleveland Museum of Art
Drawing Lots for Prizes (Ho biki)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock prints; ōban triptych · 1793
Art Institute of Chicago
The Courtesan Konosumi, from the series Beauties of the Southern Quarter (Nangoku bijin awase)
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Woodblock print (nishiki-e) with mica on paper · 1793
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Courtesan Arihara of the Tsuruya, and Child Attendants Aoe and Sekiya (Tsuruya uchi Arihara, Aoe, Sekiya), from an untitled series of courtesans
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblcok print; aiban · 1792
Art Institute of Chicago
Takashima Ohisa
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock print; oban · 1790
Art Institute of Chicago
The Lady Tomimoto Toyohina Reading a Letter
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · 1790
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper · 1790
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
color woodblock print · 1788
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fan Vendor
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Woodblock print (nishiki-e) · 1787
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Test of Skill - the Headwaters of Amorousness (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami): Osan and Mohei
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese
Color woodblock print; oban · 1756
Art Institute of Chicago