About This Items
- Thank you for visiting.
- This is a vintage reproduction of the ukiyoe " Smoking " a ukiyoe of a beautiful woman by the Edo period ukiyoe artist, Utamaro Kitagawa.
- It depicts a beautiful woman in a blue yukata smoking in a relaxed manner with her hair still tied up.
- Kitagawa Utamaro was an ukiyo-e artist active in the Edo period.
- Until then, the whole body had been drawn in bijin-ga paintings, where the body was omitted, and his bijin-ga paintings, which focused on the face, gained popularity and are highly acclaimed worldwide today.