The Courtesans Kasugano and Utahama of Tamaya, from Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors
c. 1800
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 39.1 × 26.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-195114
Kitagawa Utamaro was well known for his close-up portraits that belonged to a genre, or category, of images called bijinga (pictures of beautiful people). This print is from a series that invites comparisons of the attractiveness of different figures. It features two sex workers from an establishment in the Yoshiwara district of Edo (now Tokyo).
Provenance
Whittemore, 1930.217
Registry history
- c. 1800 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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