Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Beauty Holding a Fan

Size: 40.0cm by 27.5cm (15.75 in by 10.83 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Kitagawa Utamaro

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 10,000$ 90.00£ 65.00€ 75.75 [Item has been sold]

Description: This is an okubi-e (close-up portrait) of a young lady dancer by Utamaro. She isn't a professional dancer (from the Yoshiwara, etc.) but the daughter of a well-off family, who learned dancing as part of her general comportment.

There are slight tears on the right side of this print.

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