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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
Kami-yui [Hairdresser], from the series Fujin Tewaza Juni-Ko [Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft]

Woodblock print, signed Utamaro hitsu, published by Wakasaya Yoichi, circa 1798–99, framed and glazed
Vertical oban (38.7 x 25.4cm.), including frame (63 x 48cm.)

Walter Amstutz

Specialist note

For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston see www.mfa.org accession number 21.6481. Also see Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, (London, 1995), no. 312

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