The Fickle Type

Data

The Fickle Type
Print   (Part of the set: Utamaro Famous Beauties)

Kitagawa Utamaro
Mainichi Newspaper
1980s

26.80 cm
40.70 cm

2016
00009-014
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

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.

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