The painter character Seiji Moriyama in the British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro 's An Artist of the Floating World (1986) has a reputation as a "modern Utamaro" for his combination of Western …

Utamaro emerged as one of the greatest masters of late eighteenth-century Japanese art and helped define the golden age of the woodblock printing technique.

Nov 27, 2025 · Utamaro was a Japanese printmaker and painter who was one of the greatest artists of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) movement; he is known especially for his …

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: 喜多川 歌麿; c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, …

Jun 25, 2025 · Utamaro was renowned for his bijinga woodblock prints, depicting beautiful women of his day, and other artworks that won the hearts of the people of Edo (now Tokyo).

Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿) (ca. 1753 – 1806) (his name was archaically romanized as Outamaro) was a prolific Japanese printmaker and painter, and is considered one of the …

Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed …

Kitagawa Utamaro was a renowned Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints and his contribution to the ukiyo-e art movement. His work often depicted bijin ōkubi-e and nature …

Utamaro often took his inspiration from the lives of common people, and he treated the theme of mother and child with more poignancy than did most artists. In Woman Washing a Baby in a …

Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France. He influenced the European Impressionists, particularly …