Kitagawa Utamaro, perhaps the most celebrated artist of the 'bijin' genre of portraying beautiful women, was efascinated by images of mother and child in daily life. This print belongs to a series entitled Fuzoku Bijin Tokei ( Daily Customs of Beautiful Women). To illustrate midnight, Utamaro has chosen a mother who sleepily emerges from her mosquito net to attend to her child, who rubs the sleep from his eyes.

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Size: 3500px × 5199px
Photo credit: © Pictures From History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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