Portrait of a Courtesan

Data

Portrait of a Courtesan
Print   (Part of the set: Utamaro Beauties (set of 36))

Kitagawa Utamaro
Kaneko Fusui


26.00 cm
40.00 cm

2019
00238-026
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00238-026

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

A reproduction (probably) from the early Showa period, by Fusui Shobo 孚水書房.

The lines are all carved and printed very carefully. The gradation (bokashi) of the tortoiseshell comb particularly looks very realistic. The hairlines around the face and nape are also finely detailed.

She is Hinadori of Keizetsuro house (鶴舌楼雛鶴), and Utamaro captured her sorrowful look and depicted her emotion with sensitivity.

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