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Kitagawa Utamaro: Utamakura [Poem of the Pillow]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro  (–1806)  wikidata:Q272045
 
Kitagawa Utamaro
Alternative names
Japanese: 喜多川歌麿
Description Japanese painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death circa 1753
date QS:P,+1753-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 31 October 1806 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo Edo
Work period 1770 Edit this at Wikidata–
Work location
Edo
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q272045
Title
Utamakura [Poem of the Pillow]
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Ukiyo-e prints
Dimensions 27 × 38.5 cm (10.6 × 15.1 in)
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history
  • ex-collection Bernard Leach
  • Sold 15 October 2013 at Christies, London: Price Realized £68,500 includes hammer price and buyer's premium
Notes
  • From left to right, top to bottom, the scenes are:
  1. (Preface)
  2. A scaly river monster (kappa) ravishing an abalone diver as her companion looks on in horror and fascination
  3. A widow and her lover beside an open veranda
  4. A maid from a samurai mansion with her lover
  5. Lovers beside a standing lantern
  6. A young woman fighting off rape by a hairy older man
  7. A kept mistress with a young lover beside a chrysanthemum-decorated screen
  8. A portly married couple
  9. A woman discovering another woman's letter hidden in the robe of her young lover
  10. Lovers beneath a blossoming cherry tree
  11. Lovers in the private second floor room of a tea house,
  12. A Dutch couple
References
  • Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, exhibition catalogue, (London and Tokyo, 1995) vol. 2, p.279
  • Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, (London, 1987), p.414-416
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  • No. 9 above (described as a 'Kabuki actor and escort charms a client with agreeable conversation') British Museum
    No. 9 above (described as a 'Kabuki actor and escort charms a client with agreeable conversation') British Museum

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