Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Takigawa, one of the most famous Yoshiwara courtesans at the Ogiya brothel, is shown here after her bath. Comparing this print with the other portrait of Takigawa by Utamaro (see Woman Drying Her Hands [1930.219]) illustrates how pose, gesture, and clothing can suggest different moods for the same individual.

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection

Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).

Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections

A vertical woodblock print depicts a woman with pale skin looking over her shoulder to our right. Her black hair is in a high bun secured with several long yellow pins. She has thin, arched eyebrows and small red lips. Her kimono features a radiating, fan-like pattern in muted blue and green. Vertical columns of Japanese calligraphy are inscribed against a plain background.

(Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, UK, March 24, 1977, part III, lot 159)

(R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

The Courtesan Takigawa of Ogiya (from the series Seven Aspects of Komachi in the Green Houses)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿