Artworks

Geigi (Five Kinds of Ink from the Northern Provinces)

Artwork · Kitagawa Utamaro · 1790–1795 · Japanese woodblock print

From a series by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) on the classes of courtesan, from the geisha at the top to the lowest prostitute: the geigi is gay and animated, bent on amusing her customer through conversation. 1 Mason 2005, p. 287, fig. 326. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.