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Mirror, from the series “Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places" ("Meisho koshikake hakkei")

Kitagawa Utamaro

Painted
c. 1795/96
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban

A woman making up before a mirror, from Utamaro's series of Eight Views of tea-house women, around 1795. The "eight views" format came from Chinese landscape painting; he turned it into scenes of women's daily life. Yellow ground, black hair and the round mirror make simple pieces.

Object record (Art Institute of Chicago) · CC0

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