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Woman Holding a Tortoise-shell Hair-comb

Kitagawa Utamaro

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Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
Date
c. 1795/96
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban
Dimensions
39.2 × 26.6 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection

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Sato Shirobei Tadanobu (Sato Shirobei Tadanobu)

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Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1776–80

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Color woodblock print; oban

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Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1788/90

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

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Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe, from the series "Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon)"

Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe, from the series "Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon)"

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1792/93

Color woodblock print; oban

Art Institute of Chicago

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Hinazuru of the Chojiya, Whose Attendants Are Tsuruji and Tsuruno (Chojiya uchi Hinazuru, Tsuruji, Tsuruno), from the series "Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (Toji zensei bijin-zoroe)"

Hinazuru of the Chojiya, Whose Attendants Are Tsuruji and Tsuruno (Chojiya uchi Hinazuru, Tsuruji, Tsuruno), from the series "Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (Toji zensei bijin-zoroe)"

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1794

Color woodblock print; oban

Art Institute of Chicago

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman Holding a Tortoise-shell Hair-comb, c. 1795/96, Color woodblock print; oban, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

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Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from the series "Comparing the Charms of Five Beauties (Gonin bijin aikyo kurabe)"

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c. 1795/96

Color woodblock print; oban

Art Institute of Chicago

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Three Beauties of Yoshiwara (Seiro san bijin)

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1793

Color woodblock print; oban

Art Institute of Chicago

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Sato Shirobei Tadanobu (Sato Shirobei Tadanobu)

Sato Shirobei Tadanobu (Sato Shirobei Tadanobu)

c. 1776–80

Color woodblock print; hosoban

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1783

Color woodblock print; oban

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Enjoying the Cool in a Garden

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c. 1788/90

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1788/90

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A Page from Gifts from the Ebb Tide

1789

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c. 1790

Color woodblock-printed book

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