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Shamisen Player

Kitagawa Utamaro II 喜多川歌麿 二代目 (died 1831?) · late 18th-early 19th century · Color, ink, and gold on silk panel

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Utamaro was one of the most prolific and talented artists of eighteenth-century Japan. His name is synonymous with evocative studies of women of the licensed brothel quarters. Approximately 1,900 woodblock print designs bear his name; his paintings are rarer. This painting was probably done in the final decade of the artist's life.

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Credit lineShamisen Player. late 18th-early 19th century. Kitagawa Utamaro II 喜多川歌麿 二代目 (died 1831?). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
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