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Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)" Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)" Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
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Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)" is a color woodblock print; oban by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806), dated c. 1794. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 1965 × 3000 px (2.0 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 649 works by Kitagawa Utamaro, a Japanese artist.
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Kitagawa Utamaro →
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