Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty,Used

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty,Used

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Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (17531806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyoe, pictures of the floating world, in late eighteenthcentury Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In 1804, at the height of his success, Utamaro published a set of prints related to a banned historical novel. The prints, titled Hideyoshi and his Five Concubines, depicted the military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshis wife and concubines, and consequently, he was accused of insulting Hideyoshis dignity. Utamaro was sentenced to be handcuffed for fifty days and is thought to have been briefly imprisoned. According to some sources, the experience crushed him emotionally and ended his career as an artist.In this new expanded edition, Julie Nelson Davis draws on a wide range of period sources, makes a close study of selected print sets, and reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times. Reconstructing the place of the ukiyoe artist within the commercial print market, she demonstrates how Utamaros images participated in a larger spectacle of beauty in the city of Edo (presentday Tokyo).

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