Kitagawa Utamaro (?–1806) was undoubtedly Japan’s greatest artist of bijinga (pictures of beautiful women) in the ukiyo-e genre, but like many working in ukiyo-e, it took some time for him to ...

“Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” reunites for the first time in nearly 140 years three works by the legendary Japanese ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) master, ...

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty is not a beginner's book. Disavowing any intention to survey Utamaro's art as a whole, it consists for the most part of five chronologically and thematically ...

For the first time in nearly 140 years, three paintings by the legendary but mysterious Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) have been reunited at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler ...

A recently discovered painting by Kitagawa Utamaro (around 1753-1806) is due to go on show for the first time this week at the British Museum. The hanging scroll from around 1805-06 shows a courtesan ...

than were the movies at the time of Mizoguchi's career. And there's a large element of self portraiture in the director's depiction of Utamaro. (speaking in Japanese) The overarching theme of the ...

Seldom does a show subvert expectations as subtly and deftly as “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” at the Smithsonian’s Freer-Sackler. The somewhat ambiguous title seems to ...

In a complex two-year process, advisory firm Gurr Johns guided the court-ordered consignment of museum masterworks, which culminated in a white-glove sale that set new records for Utamaro and Hokusai.

Few filmmakers have made as daring and forthright a credo of their artistic ambitions as does the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi in this 1946 historical drama, about the life and work of the ...