Beautiful Woman Looking in a Mirror

Data

Beautiful Woman Looking in a Mirror
Print   (Part of the set: Utamaro Famous Beauties)

Kitagawa Utamaro
Mainichi Newspaper
1980s

26.80 cm
40.20 cm

2016
00009-012
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

This print shows a beautiful tea-house girl using a mirror to help her adjust her hair a little. The young woman faces away from us, showing the nape of her neck, and appears relaxed. Although she isn't named, from her features and the paulownia crest on her kimono, she is thought to be the tea-house girl Naniwa O-Kita who appears in other prints by Utamaro.

The print is from Utamaro's Sugatami Shichinin Keshô ("Seven Women Applying Make-up Using a Mirror") series. Nevertheless this is the only print which is currently known in the series - the others remain, for the present, lost.

Please refer back to the description of this set as a whole to find more information on other aspects of this print.

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