
About the work
Nakatsu (from the series Fifty-three Stations in the Life of a Beauty) is a color woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro, dated c. 1803. It belongs to the series Fifty-three Stations in the Life of a Beauty. Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753–1806) was a master of the Japanese woodblock print, best known for his portraits of women. He framed faces close up, with fine lines and soft colour, and his prints were collected in Europe from the 1860s on. The original is in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art.
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