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Utamaro : Portraits from the Floating World, Paperback Book

Utamaro : Portraits from the Floating World Paperback

Illustrated by Kitigawa Utamaro

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This volume presents the work of Utamaro, the master ukiyo-e portraitist of women.

It includes colour reproductions from Ten Studies of Female Physiognomy' and 'Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry'.

Who was the man behind the pseudonym 'Utamaro'? We know that he was one of the greatest artists of eighteenth-century Japan, and that he was a master portraitist of women in the woodblock-print tradition known as ukiyo-e.

But as for the man himself, we know almost nothing. The little there is-gleaned from contemporary books, miscellaneous writings, temple registers-is'

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