Utamaro kitagawa biography examples

Japanese artist (–)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kitagawa.

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: 喜多川 歌麿; c.&#;&#;– 31 October ) 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 bijinōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Little is known of Utamaro's life. His work began to appear in the s, and he rose to prominence in the early s with his portraits of beauties with exaggerated, elongated features.

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He produced over known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime. In he was arrested and manacled for fifty days for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later.

Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying par