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Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)" Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)" Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
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Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)" is a color woodblock print; oban by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806), dated c. 1804/06. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 2036 × 3000 px (1.8 MB). You will find it among 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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Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)" is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
