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Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
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culture · Japanese artist (1753–1806) · ukiyo-e artist · painter · graphic artist · xylographer · also Kitagawa Utamaro, Utamaro, Outamaro, Nobuyoshi Kitagawa, Entaisai, Toyoaki
Born 1 January 1753 · Died 31 October 1806 · Q272045
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Nippon: Kitagawa Utamaro: The Ukiyo-e Legend and His Prints of Edo Beauties
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毎日新聞: Kitagawa Utamaro portrait of woman found after 44 years, to be shown at Tokyo Nat'l Museum
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2016· 1 entry
Utamaro's Fukaku Shinobu Koi set the record price for an ukiyo-e print sold at auction at €745000
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2015· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Kitagawa Utamaro II
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1917· 1 entry
Admirers of Utamaro had the decayed grave repaired
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1912· 1 entry
“Utamaro of the Taishō period”
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1908· 1 entry
That was similar to Fenollosa's, considering the 1790s a period of decline, but placing Utamaro amongst the masters
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1891· 1 entry
With help from the Japanese art dealer Tadamasa Hayashi
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1888· 1 entry
By the German-French art dealer Siegfried Bing
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1806· 1 entry
Died 1806-10-31.
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1804· 3 entries
Utamaro ran into legal trouble over a series of prints of samurai warriors, with their names slightly disguised; the depiction of warriors, their names, and their crests was forbidden at the time
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After which he was manacled along with Tsukimaro, Toyokuni, Shuntei, Shun'ei, and Jippensha Ikku for fifty days and their publishers subjected to heavy fines
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Was arrested and manacled for fifty days for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later
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1753· 1 entry
Born 1753-01-01.
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