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This print, Sagi Musume, shows a young woman dancing in a traditional festival as the "Heron Maiden", a heron who has transformed into a beautiful girl. Her colourful costume and sheer hat, topped with a peony, are undoubtedly highlights of the print. She seems to be holding another hat, or perhaps a fan, in her hands, and another appears on her shoulder. This is one of the rarer works by Utamaro, and an early copy currently held by the Tokyo National Museum is classified as an "Important Art Object".
The print is from Utamaro's Tôsei Odoriko Zoroe ("An Array of Dancing Girls of the Present Day") series of prints. Four other prints are currently known to make up the series, although there is the possibility that others, now lost, were also originally included.
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