Two Beauties ca. 1801–4 Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese Utamaro, the well-known ukiyo-e painter and printmaker, was a disciple of the Kano artist Toriyama Sekien (1712–1788). In this work, a well-dressed girl from a wealthy merchant family is contrasted with a seated woman wearing a simple cotton kimono that is open at the breast. In the Chinese-style couplet inscribed at the upper left by Ubu Kanjin, two butterflies stand in for the two beauties:It is strange how a pair of butterfliesCome fluttering towards me, flyaway, then they wish to enter throughmy gauze is as if a spr
Two Beauties ca. 1801–4 Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese Utamaro, the well-known ukiyo-e painter and printmaker, was a disciple of the Kano artist Toriyama Sekien (1712–1788). In this work, a well-dressed girl from a wealthy merchant family is contrasted with a seated woman wearing a simple cotton kimono that is open at the breast. In the Chinese-style couplet inscribed at the upper left by Ubu Kanjin, two butterflies stand in for the two beauties:It is strange how a pair of butterfliesCome fluttering towards me, flyaway, then they wish to enter throughmy gauze is as if a spring breeze is forcingopen the windowAnd filling the room with the spiritof Two Beauties 45803
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