Kitagawa Utamaro Paintings

Utamaro Kitagawa was born in 1753 in Edo (today Tokyo) and died in 1806. He is considered the leading Japanese printmaker and painter of bijin. His original name was Ichitaro Kitagawa. Utamaro started his career as a student of the master painter Toriyama Sekien. Utamaro's early known art works are ukiyo-e prints for the kabuki theater published under the name of Utagawa Toyoaki.

In 1781/82 he changed his name to Kitagawa Utamaro. Around 1783 Utamaro started a successful cooperation with the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo. Together they published several book illustrations. The early works of Utamaro were influenced by Torii Kiyonaga and Harunobu Suzuki.


References: https://www.wikiart.org/en/kitagawa-utamaro
https://www.artelino.com/articles/utamaro.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro