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=UTAMARO=

Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese printmaker and a painter, who is considered one of the greatest artists of [|woodblock] prints. He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as //[|bijinga].// The original name of Utamaro is Ichitaro Kitagaw, he was born either in [|Edo] (present-day Tokyo), [|Kyoto], or [|Osaka], or in a provincial town, in 1753. In 1783 Tsutaya Juzaburo and Utamaro together they published several books illustrations. Since 1791 Utamaro concentrated his work on single portraits of women, then he took his models from the street or from the pleasure-district Yoshiwara. This is how Utamaro got fame in two years just by painting this different women than the other paints. Utamaro certainly did not show women in his art works, but then he started painting women. But hes women were different than the real women, he made their faces more larger and with other different things.

Kitagawa Utamaro: //Okita of the Naniwaya Teahouse//, ca.1790 This image is just a different women is the art of Utamaro. He got fame just for painting women diffrently. This women looks like if she is looking at her self in the mirror. She might be getting ready for something especial. //Flowers of Edo: Young Woman's Narrative Chanting to the Samisen// c. 1800 //Flowers of Edo: Young Woman's Narrative Chanting to the Samisen// c. 1800 This painting is about a women that is relaxed playing her instrument. I think that she is singing to the flowers. //Ase o fuku onna//, wood print of woman wiping sweat from her brow, 1798 About this painting i could say that she might be thinking wile she is wiping her sweat from her brow. She migh had to run or she was working thats why she is wiping her sweat.

Print from Yamanba and Kintaro Sakazuki series This women is giving food to a little man. This of coarse is not real it's Utamaro's imagination. But i can say that he is realy a good imaginator. Print of three women I don't have nothing to say about this pictures. One Hundred Stories of Demons and Spirits This painting i think is about three women trying to get away the bad espirits. [] This painting is about