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Geisha Walking in Snow Holding Umbrella

Geisha Walking in Snow Holding Umbrella

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Utagawa Kuniyasu

From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the primary market for ukiyo-e expanded beyond male visitors to the Yoshiwara pleasure district. Female buyers increasingly interested in current fads and fashions provided a new market. Pictures of beautiful women presented costume and accoutrements in increasing detail and variety. Kuniyasu’s figure wears a colorful leaf-patterned short-sleeved kimono, which was usually worn by women older than nineteen and considered more modest and restrained. Even in winter, women were often depicted in bare feet. Japanese considered feet, like the often-exposed nape of the neck, to be highly erotic. Courtesans and geisha often applied make-up to their feet to enhance their beauty and allure.
Artist
Utagawa Kuniyasu
(Japanese, 1794 - 1833)
Title
Geisha Walking in Snow Holding Umbrella
Date
1810-1825
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
730 x 250 mm Image
Credit
Gift of Linda and John Comstock
Accession No.
2003.48.12
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 185, no. 173

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 : Chazen Museum of Art, 3/21/2008–6/15/2008
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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