Artworks

Minazuki (July), from The Twelve Months of Fashion

Artwork · Utagawa Toyokuni I · 1823 · Japanese woodblock print

A fan print by Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769–1825), whose actor prints of the 1790s made the Utagawa school the most prolific of the nineteenth century: a young woman holds a mirror behind her head to check the nape of her neck in a covered table mirror — a pun on the month’s name, “month without water” or “month of not seeing”. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 288–289, fig. 329. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.