In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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).
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Kitagawa Utamaro
Kikugawa Eizan|Utagawa Kunisada|Utagawa Kunimaru
Kitagawa Utamaro — 三婦艶|Three Beauties of the Kwansei Period
Kitagawa Utamaro — 実競色乃美名家見 三浦屋小紫 白井権八|The Lovers Miura-ya K
Kitagawa Hidemaro (Japanese) — Going to the Kabuki Theater i
Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro — 喜多川歌麿画 絵兄弟娘道成寺 見立猿廻し 「絵兄弟」|A Woman Dre
Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro
Chōbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829) — The Courtesan Takihi
Utamaro II — 遊君出そめ初衣裳 扇屋内花扇|The Oiran Hanaogi of Ogiya atten
Katsukawa Shunchō
