喜多川歌麿
Kitagawa Utamaro belongs to the ukiyo-e tradition of Edo-period Japan, celebrated for his refined portraits of women and his mastery of polychrome woodblock printing. The archive's single holding is a polychrome woodblock printed book with ink and color on paper, containing sheets dated 1790, with impressions up to that year. Its example title, The Silver World (Gin sekai), reflects the artist's engagement with the floating world through delicate line and color. Together these materials offer a compact glimpse of Utamaro's printmaking during the height of his career.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
