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Kitagawa Utamaro; biography and print artworks

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Biography of Kitagawa Utamaro(1753?-1806) When talking about portraying beautiful women of ukiyo-e prints, we can’t describe it without touching on Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿). He developed the new ways to draw Edo women and it made him as a maestro of bijinga(printing of beautiful women portrait).       It is unclear when and where he was born exactly […]

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Hokusai’s waterfalls ukiyo-e artworks and the art prints for sale

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“A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces” (諸国瀧廻り) Just after the success of  “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”, popular ukiyo-e artist among Edo people, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced the famous waterfalls ukiyo-e series “A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces” from 1833 to 1837. When he drew the pitcures, he used the name of “former Hokusai and

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