This print depicts the woman of the mountains Yamauba combing her hair, with her adopted son, the wild boy Kintoki, clinging to her back. Utamaro designed several prints of the famous pair, but this one is particularly interesting in several ways, one being the noticeable juxtaposition between very thick and bold brush strokes, used in Yamauba's kimono and Kintoki's outline, and extremely thin, delicate lines in the hairlines of the two. Another interesting point is the contrast between Yamauba's wild features (her long, somewhat straggly hair and thick eyebrows) and her blackened teeth. It seems that even in the mountains she took the time to darken her teeth with ohaguro (お歯黒) in order to enhance her beauty. The original print was probably produced around 1801.

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