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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableThere is very little reliable documentation about the early years of the artist Kitagawa Utamaro. Information about the date of birth and family circumstances is vague. The Japanese artist, whose maiden name is Kitagawa Nebsuyoshi and at times called himself Toyoaki, deepened his artistic talent with the painter Toriyama. Kitagawa's technique was the representation in woodblock printing and belonged to a movement of artists of the ukiyo-e style. In the "Pictures of the Floating World", the realistic depictions of the picture rolls are mixed with decorative elements. The art movement was closely connected with the entertainment districts of Japan.
After some studies of the scenic beauty of Japan, the artist developed a predilection for the beauty of women. He completed his depictions of women with a precision and devotion like no other artist of his time. The women also loved Kitagawa and so he created numerous precise woodblock prints with the ladies from tea houses. The artist composed his print scenes respectfully, sensitively and in keeping with the family status of women.
The work "Three Beauties of the Present Day" is a woodblock print showing three geishas in a triangular composition. The three ladies were known for their beauty in Edo, today's Tokyo. They were actresses and dancers, familiar with the artist and perhaps they were his courtesans. These beauties inspired Utamaro and are a regular motif in his works.
There is very little reliable documentation about the early years of the artist Kitagawa Utamaro. Information about the date of birth and family circumstances is vague. The Japanese artist, whose maiden name is Kitagawa Nebsuyoshi and at times called himself Toyoaki, deepened his artistic talent with the painter Toriyama. Kitagawa's technique was the representation in woodblock printing and belonged to a movement of artists of the ukiyo-e style. In the "Pictures of the Floating World", the realistic depictions of the picture rolls are mixed with decorative elements. The art movement was closely connected with the entertainment districts of Japan.
After some studies of the scenic beauty of Japan, the artist developed a predilection for the beauty of women. He completed his depictions of women with a precision and devotion like no other artist of his time. The women also loved Kitagawa and so he created numerous precise woodblock prints with the ladies from tea houses. The artist composed his print scenes respectfully, sensitively and in keeping with the family status of women.
The work "Three Beauties of the Present Day" is a woodblock print showing three geishas in a triangular composition. The three ladies were known for their beauty in Edo, today's Tokyo. They were actresses and dancers, familiar with the artist and perhaps they were his courtesans. These beauties inspired Utamaro and are a regular motif in his works.
.jpg "Yamauba and Kintoki. The mother combs her hair while carrying her child on her back. Japanese print by Utamaro Kitagawa. 18th century. Paris, Guimet Museum, Asian Arts Museum by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Ten Physiognomic Types of Women, Coquettish Type by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-208284).jpg "Three girls paddling in a river, from the")
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.jpg "Representation of a Japanese couple stroking each other on a bench. Prints by Utamaro Kitagawa. Paris, Guimet Museum, National Museum of Asian Arts by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Woman wiping sweat by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Woman Writing by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Toji San Bijin by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-190952).jpg "A woman holding a dog in her arms, from")
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.jpg "Takashima Ohisa, Ohisa of the Takashima tea-shop by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-44535).jpg "Two Female Figures by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Naniwaya Teahouse Waitress Okita by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Two Beauties by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 c1803 and Asahiya Goke the widow from the series Komei bijin rokkasen c1796 (woodblock prin - (MeisterDrucke-43011).jpg "An Impertinent Woman, from the series")
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.jpg "Two Women, ca. 1790 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Woman Sitting on Veranda by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Three Beauties of the Present Day by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-42255).jpg "Takigawa from the Tea-House, Ogi by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "In the Kitchen, ca. 1794-95 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Woman with Puppies by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Tsukioka of Hyogoya Rolling a Letter by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-311641).jpg "Snake and Lizard by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1298512).jpg "A Set of Three Romantic Journeys by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "A woman powdering her neck with shade by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Sweetflag and Rocks in a Basin of Water from the Series Imitations of the Eight Views by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series \"Courtesans of the Five Festivals\" by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "The Asahiya Widow, from the series Renowned Beauties Likened to the Six Immortal Poets by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1361793).jpg "Older Married Couple Making Love by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Colour-Shunga by Utamaro by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1364759).jpg "Prostitute Kissing a Young Man by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Newlywed Couple Making Love on a Summer Sleeping Mat by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1361619).jpg "Loving Couple Beside a Room Divider by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1363361).jpg "Geisha and Lover by Freestanding Screen (Negai no itoguchi) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Geisha in Kimono with Long Sleeves and Her Lover by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Secret Affair of a Married Man and a Married Woman by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1362749).jpg "Lovers in Front of a Mirror (series title: Negai no itoguchi) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Courtesan with a Client (Negai no itoguchi) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1362092).jpg "Geisha and Her Lover (Negai no itoguchi series) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Young Woman Blowing a Popen glass noisemaker by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1365708).jpg "Young Citizen")
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_w_-_(MeisterDrucke-1119571).jpg "Mother breastfeeding her son, ukiyo-e art print by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), woodcut, Japanese civilization, Edo period by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1365892).jpg "Married Man and Widow by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Couple caressing under the gaze of the handmaid by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1363377).jpg "Married Man and Widow (Negai no itoguchi) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Shunga Album. Picture Book of Willing Women - Part Two by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Cone-headed Grasshopper or Locust, Praying Mantis by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Sewing, Women")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-101751).jpg "Yama-Uba and Kintoki by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Naniwa Okita Admiring Herself in a Mirror, ca. 1790-95 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Lovers in an Upstairs Room, from The Poem of the Pillow, 1788 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Yamauba and Kintaro, popular figures from Japanese folklore by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Mother nursing her child before a mirror stand, c.1800-04 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_from_the_series_Five_Shades_of_Ink_in_the_Nor_-_(MeisterDrucke-1298853).jpg "A Low Class Prostitute, from the series \"Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter\" by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-61115).jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "A Pair of Lovers by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe, from the series Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "A Woman and a Cat by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1021663).jpg "Japanese art: woman sitting in front of a bird cage. Drawing by Outamaro (Utamaro) Kitagawa (1753-1806) 18th century. Rennes, Musee des Beaux Arts by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_18th_centu_-_(MeisterDrucke-1029683).jpg "Woman craving the lips by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_from_the_series_Twelve_types_of_womens_handicraft_(Fujin_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-877856).jpg "Hairdresser from the series")
_from_the_series_Twelve_types_of_womens_handicraft_(Fujin_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-877856).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-180388).jpg "Shaving a Boy")
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 (coloured woodblock print) - (MeisterDrucke-100991).jpg "The Bath, Edo period by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Mole Cricket and Earwig on Bamboo Shoot by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Geisha Walking through the Snow at Night by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "The Courtesan Hana-ogi of Ogiya as the Sennin Tekkai, mid 1790s by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_Kitagawa_(attributed_to)_-_Courtisane_Karagoto_uit_het_Chojiya_huisChojiya_uchi_Karagoto_(title_on_object)C_-_(MeisterDrucke-1370394).jpg "Courtesan Karagoto from the Chojiya house (series title: Courtesans and the Five Festivals) by Utamaro (II) , Kitagawa (attributed to)")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-41859).jpg "Yama-Uba, the Woman of the Mountain, with Kintoki, her Baby by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "From the Series A Parents Moralising Spectacles by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1303944).jpg "Woman Holding a Fan (from the series Ten Aspects of the Physiognomy of Women) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_fr_-_(MeisterDrucke-1123789).jpg "Woman washing herself, illustration by Kitagawa Utamaro from Hana Awase Kesho Kurabe, Aiban-tate-e woodcut by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Woman smoking pipe, ukiyo-e art print, Tosa school by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Shunga Album. Picture Book about Willing Women - Part One by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Woman Playing with a Child with a Tengu Mask by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-190094).jpg "Earwig and mole-cricket, 1788 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-189228).jpg "Grasshopper and praying mantis, 1788 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Man and Woman Under an Umbrella by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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Kase_-_(MeisterDrucke-1380246).jpg "Love That Meets Every Night (Love Poems) by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 c1803 (colour woodblock print) - (MeisterDrucke-39294).jpg "The Pleasure of Conversation by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Snail and Noisy Cricket on Eggplant by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Wrestler and Two Women by Katsukawa Shunei")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-51045).jpg "Artisans Making a Woodcut, c.1857 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "An Owl and two Eastern Bullfinches, from an album")
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_known_as_the_Bird_Book_1790_(ukiyo-e)_-_(MeisterDrucke-390380).jpg "Momo chidori (Myriad birds), known as the Bird Book, 1790 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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_st_-_(MeisterDrucke-946204).jpg "Three Beauties of Our Time by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "The Courtesans Somenosuke and Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from the series")
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_Sun_03_-_(MeisterDrucke-999607).jpg "The toilet of the elegante by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Hairdresser Kamiyui by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Courtesan Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya House by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "A Half Length Portrait of Naniwaya Okita, Depicting the Famous Teahouse Waitress Serving a Cup of Tea by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Half Length Portrait of a Woman Smoking by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "The Nakadaya Teahouse by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Mother and Child, ca. 1790 by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Red Dragonfly and Locust by Pinks by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Bust Portrait of the Courtesan, Fijie from Manjiya by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Geisha of the West District by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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.jpg "Grasshopper on Bean and Praying Mantis on Melon by Kitagawa Utamaro")
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 (see also 159179) - (MeisterDrucke-81989).jpg "Young Woman Applying Make-up by Kitagawa Utamaro")
.jpg "Bathing in Cold Water by Kitagawa Utamaro")
.jpg "Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami by Kitagawa Utamaro")
.jpg "Bust Portrait of the Heroine Kioto of the Itoya by Kitagawa Utamaro")