Mother and Child

Data

Mother and Child
Print   (Part of the set: Taisho era subscription prints)

Utamaro

1910s

00024-063
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00024-063

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

Very interesting image, capturing a scene of a mother and child. While the small child is sucking breast milk, he is busy playing with the other breast. Not only that, his interest is also directed toward an item shown by the lady behind the mother.

No white pigment is used anywhere in the image. However, for the two women, a very faint pink is printed in the area just below the eyebrows. That is why their noses and foreheads look bumpy and white.

In the left foreground, Utamaro skillfully depicted the Daruma's reflection on the surface of the dressing table, presumably with an urushi surface. Is this Utamaro's mischievous spirit?

We wonder why the baby's kimono pattern is that of the Ichikawa kabuki family.

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