Utamaro

[ oo-tah-mah-raw; English oo-tuh-mahr-oh ]

/ ˈu tɑˈmɑ rɔ; English ˌu təˈmɑr oʊ /

noun

Ki·ta·ga·wa

[kee-tah-gah-wah] /ˈki tɑˈgɑ wɑ/,1753–1806, Japanese painter, draftsman, and designer of prints.

Example sentences from the Web for utamaro

Tamagawa Shucho was a rare pupil of Utamaro who worked about 1790 to 1810.

Chats on Japanese Prints |Arthur Davison Ficke
To-day the poorer examples of Utamaro's work are still readily procurable.

Chats on Japanese Prints |Arthur Davison Ficke
It was by his portraits of women that Utamaro won his great fame.

Chats on Japanese Prints |Arthur Davison Ficke
It is rhetoric, not the profound and tragic poetry of Sharaku, nor the subtle and decadent lyric strain of Utamaro.

Chats on Japanese Prints |Arthur Davison Ficke

During this last decade of the nineteenth century Utamaro produced the greatest of his works.

Chats on Japanese Prints |Arthur Davison Ficke

British Dictionary definitions for utamaro

Utamaro

/ (ˌuːtəˈmɑːrəʊ) /

noun

Kitagawa (ˌkiːtəˈɡɑːwə), original name Kitagawa Nebsuyoshi . 1753–1806, Japanese master of wood-block prints, of the ukiyo-e school; noted esp for his portraits of women

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Utamaro

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