Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Pipe Smoking Woman

Size: 40.5cm by 27.0cm (15.94 in by 10.63 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Kitagawa Utamaro

Era: Mid Showa | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 63.00£ 49.50€ 57.75 [Item has been sold]

Description: A print also known under the title "Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe" (Kiseru no kemuri o fuku onna), from Utamaro's series "Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy" (Fujô ninsô juppon). A young, bare-breasted woman casually exhales a puff of smoke from her pipe in a scene of total relaxation.

The mica background is a highlight of the print, as is the fine carving of the courtesan's hairline.

This particular print is a mid-1970s reproduction by the Takamizawa Company.

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