Cleveland Museum of Art
The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women
Kitagawa Utamaro
- Date
- c. 1793
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Kitagawa Utamaro was well known for his close-up portraits that belonged to a genre, or category, of images called bijinga (pictures of beautiful people). This print is from a series that invites comparisons of the attractiveness of different figures. It comes from a series that assigns personality traits to women based on their physical appearance. Only two impressions from this series have pink mica.
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