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This print, Poppin o Fuku Musume, shows a young woman, probably the daughter of an upper middle-class merchant, blowing a glass pipe known as a poppen (occasionally also spelled popen or poppin) or biidoro (from the Portuguese word "vidro" meaning "glass"). Poppens were exotic toys which made different noises depending on whether air was blown or sucked through them (the word "poppen" is onomatopoeic of the sound when air is first blown then sucked through the toy). Poppens were extremely popular in Japan during the early 1790s, when Utamaro is believed to have designed this print.
The print appears in two of Utamaro's print series, Fujin Sōgaku Jittai ("Ten Physiognomies of Women") and Fujo Ninsō Juppin ("Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy"), but from the title in the upper right we can tell that this particular print is from the latter series.
Please refer back to the description of this set as a whole to find more information on other aspects of this print.
Other prints in this set
- Utamaro Famous Beauties
- Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe
- The Beauty Ohisa from Takashimaya
- Amusing Expression
- The Waitress Okita of Teahouse Naniwa
- Moatside Prostitute
- Courtesan Ochie from the Koise-ya
- Nightly Love
- Wakaume of the Tamaya House
- Courtesan Smoking Pipe
- Beauty in front of Mirror
- Yamauba and Kintoki
- Beautiful Woman Looking in a Mirror
- Insect Cage
- The Fickle Type
- Courtesan Hanaogi of Ōgiya
- Woman with Comb
- Woman Reading under Mosquito Net
- Courtesan Tomimoto Toyohina
- Woman with Comb
- Obvious Love
- Reflective Love
- Woman Holding a Round Fan
- Heron Maiden
- Love that Rarely Meets
- Cloth case