Artworks

Teppō (Five Kinds of Ink from the Northern Provinces)

Artwork · Kitagawa Utamaro · 1790–1795 · Japanese woodblock print · Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

The lowest and most debased of prostitutes, caught in the midst of her trade with an unseen client: dishevelled hair, disarrayed garments, a sheet of paper gripped in her teeth — Kitagawa Utamaro’s insight into the female psyche in all its nuances. 1 Mason 2005, p. 287, fig. 327. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.