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Dai Utamaro ten: Utamaro

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    • Utamaro
    • Great Utamaro exhibition

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"When you talk about the master of ukiyo-e beauties, there is none other than Utamaro Kitagawa. This name is so famous that there is not a single person who does not know it; however, in fact, his biography is surrounded by mystery. At this exhibition, by exhibiting Utamaro's colour woodblock (nishiki-e) and illustrations of woodblock books (hanpon no sashi-e), illustrated books of kyōka poetry (e-iri kyōkabon), erotic prints (shunga), original brush drawings for prints (hanshita-e) and paintings (nikuhitsu-ga), an attempt is made to set up a challenging, hypothetical theory by not only retrospecting his great art history, but also by clarifying his mystery as an artist"-- Foreword (page 5).

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    • Fukuoka-shi: Terebi Nishi Nippon, 1998
    • 福岡市: テレビ西日本, 1998
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    Catalogue of an exhibition held at Fukuoka Art Museum, 6 January-1 February; at the Ueno Royal Museum, 10 February-1 March; at Kushigata Shunsen Museum of Art, 6-29 March 1998.


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