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This print, titled Uwaki no so, is also known under English titles like "The Coquettish Type", "The Capricious Type", "The Fancy-free Type", and so on. While the word uwaki is now used in Japanese to refer to sexual unfaithfulness, in Utamaro's day it was used to refer to someone with a fickle or flighty personality.
In this print, Utamaro depicts a young woman just out of the bath. Her hair is wet and pulled up into a bai-mage (spiral-shell chignon) with a kanzashi hairpin, and she dries her hands on the cloth hanging over her shoulder. Her yukata (light summer kimono) rests loosely around her shoulders. The print is from Utamaro's Fujin Sōgaku Juttai (Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women) series originally produced from 1792 to 1793.
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