Obvious Love

Data

Obvious Love
Print   (Part of the set: Utamaro Famous Beauties)

Kitagawa Utamaro
Mainichi Newspaper
1980s

27.10 cm
40.10 cm

2016
00009-020
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00009-020

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

In this print, titled Arawaruru Koi, Utamaro depicts a young woman smiling and cooling herself with a round fan. Her hair is in disarray, and she appears to be looking down at someone while adjusting a pin in her hair. The print is from Utamaro's Kasen Koi no Bu ("Anthology of Poems: The Love Section") series originally produced in the 1790s and is considered the most sensual.

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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Quite a few years back, Dave made a reproduction of one of the prints in the same series as this one (mentioned above), and thought it might be interesting to produce a little quiz about the designs. That quiz is still online; if you would like to challenge your ability to 'see' what Utamaro saw, please give it a try!

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