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Kitagawa Utamaro
Nationality: 
japanese
Gender: 
Male
Birth Date: 
1753
Birth Place: 
Edo
Death Date: 
1806
Death Place: 
Edo
Kitagawa (formerly Toriyama) Shimbi.Go= Entaisai, Issoshurichosai, Mokueun, Sekiyo, Utamaro. Studio name= Murasakiya, Shibaya. Painter and printmaker in Edo. Pupil of Toriyama Sekien, inlfuenced by Masanobu and Kiyonaga.
A Boy Impersonating the Poet Bunya No Yasuhide from the series Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)
A Boy Impersonating the Poet Bunya No Yasuhide from the series Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)
A Child Dressed to Impersonate the Poet Ariwara no Narihira from the series Modern Children as the Six Immotal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)
A Child Dressed to Impersonate the Poet Ariwara no Narihira from the series Modern Children as the Six Immotal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)
A Cool Evening at Ryogoku Bridge in Edo (Edo ryogokubashi suzumi no zu) from the series Newly Published Perspective Pictures ( Shimpan ukie)
A Cool Evening at Ryogoku Bridge in Edo (Edo ryogokubashi suzumi no zu) from the series Newly Published Perspective Pictures ( Shimpan ukie)
A Widow Buying Morning Glories in the Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku yamome) from the series Beautiful Women in Activities Matched with Hours of the Day (Fuzoku bijin tokei)
A Widow Buying Morning Glories in the Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku yamome) from the series Beautiful Women in Activities Matched with Hours of the Day (Fuzoku bijin tokei)
A Woman of Character, from the series Moral Instruction Seen through a Parent’s Eyes
A Woman of Character, from the series Moral Instruction Seen through a Parent’s Eyes
Ascending Dragon
Ascending Dragon
Beautiful Women of the Three Cities Comparing Gestures (Sanganotsu bijin fuzoku kurabe)
Beautiful Women of the Three Cities Comparing Gestures (Sanganotsu bijin fuzoku kurabe)
Cherry Blossom in a Vase Shaped like Ebisu Holding a Basket] from an untitled series of flower arrangements
Cherry Blossom in a Vase Shaped like Ebisu Holding a Basket] from an untitled series of flower arrangements
Chitsu VI: Portfolio of Ukiyo-e Reproduction Prints
Couple Arranging Irises and Yellow Flowers
Couple Arranging Irises and Yellow Flowers
Couple making love by painted screen
Couple making love by painted screen
Courtesan and client preparing to make love
Courtesan and client preparing to make love
Courtesan with an Adolescent Client, frontispiece of the shunga album Unraveling the Threads of Desire
Courtesan with an Adolescent Client, frontispiece of the shunga album Unraveling the Threads of Desire
Dancing on the Beach, Excitement in the Village (Hama ondo sato no nigiwai) , from the series Niwakei Dancer s in the Licensed Quarter (Seiro niwaka)
Dancing on the Beach, Excitement in the Village (Hama ondo sato no nigiwai) , from the series Niwakei Dancer s in the Licensed Quarter (Seiro niwaka)
Famous Women
Hambei, the Greengrocer and His Wife Ochiyo from the series Different Realities: The Sounds of Love (Jitsu kurabe cio mo minakami)
Hambei, the Greengrocer and His Wife Ochiyo from the series Different Realities: The Sounds of Love (Jitsu kurabe cio mo minakami)
Hare on a Clear Day at Nippori (Nippori no seiran) from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)
Hare on a Clear Day at Nippori (Nippori no seiran) from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)
Kingfisher and Ducks, from the book Myriad Birds (also known as The Bird Book) (Edo: Tsutaya Jūzaburō, 1790)
Kingfisher and Ducks, from the book Myriad Birds (also known as The Bird Book) (Edo: Tsutaya Jūzaburō, 1790)
Kommachi Washes the Manuscript (Soshi arai komachi) from the series Seven Elegant Episodes in the Life of Komacho (Furyu nana komachi)
Kommachi Washes the Manuscript (Soshi arai komachi) from the series Seven Elegant Episodes in the Life of Komacho (Furyu nana komachi)
Konreino-zu (Drawing of the Wedding Ceremony)
Konreino-zu (Drawing of the Wedding Ceremony)

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