Moonrise Over the Nihon Embankment and the Yoshiwara
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806) · 1790 · color woodblock print
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Moonrise Over the Nihon Embankment and the Yoshiwara is a CC0 illustration by Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806), dated 1790. Color woodblock print. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Moonrise Over the Nihon Embankment and the Yoshiwara” (1790) is a woodblock design by Utamaro, usually a half-length portrait of a woman. Another museum may hold a different impression of the same block.
About the artist
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) designed ukiyo-e portraits of women. The prints are woodblocks, so more than one impression of a design usually exists.
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