
About the work
Parody of the Chushingura by Famous Beauties (Parodie op het Chushingura door befaamde schoonheden.) is a work by Kitagawa Utamaro. 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 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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