#utamaro

[nobrashfestivity]

Kitagawa Utamaro, Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure, c. 1795, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 36.3 x 25 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Mary Cassatt, The Coiffure, 1890–91, color drypoint and aquatint on laid paper, 43.2 x 30.7 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

[susanoos-wife]

Bullfinch and Scops Owl, by Utamaro

[mariean2inette]

Beauty Applying Makeup by Kitagawa Utamaro

[poesie-in-flux]

[lionofchaeronea]

Noda River in Mitsu (from the series The Six Crystal Rivers Newly Fashioned), Utamaro, ca. 1804

[love1kimono]

Utamaro, 1788

Scanned from the book "Lalique", Museum Calouste Gulbenkian.

"This woodblock engraving, showing insects from japan, made by Utamaro, a master of the ukyio-e style, present motifs that were frequently depicted in drawings of the age and served as inspiration for René Lalique's jewels."

[matyas-ss]

Kushi, Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1795). Woodblock print

[masterpeaces-of-japanese-culture]

Courtesans of the Matsubaya as Five Musicians, by Kitagawa Utamaro, 1797 Biography and works of Utamaro