Wakana and Wakanoura of Wakanaya from the series Facing Mirrors: Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters

Object Details

• Artist

  Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806)

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered (April 8 to July 9, 2017)

  Sylvan Sounds: Freer, Dewing, and Japan (May 18, 2013 to January 4, 2015)

  The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Paintings and Prints (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

  Japanese Prints (December 21, 1981 to March 31, 1982)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the family of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Type

  Print

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• Name

  Kitagawa, Utamaro

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Tate-e, Art, Oban, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Courtesan, Ukiyo-e, Bijinga

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints