Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. This title presents a study of selected print sets, and reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times.
Author Biography
Julie Nelson Davis is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
