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Utamaro II, artist
Japanese, active 1831
[Takigawa of Ogiya], 1806 - 1808
color woodcut
36.8 x 25.4 cm (image)
Gift of Patricia Brown McNamara, Jane Brown Dunaway, and Helen Brown Jarman in memory of Mary Wattis Brown 64.47.86

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or, Kitagawa Utamaro

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Artist Biography: Kitagawa (originally Ogawa, then Koikawa). Go= Baigado Utamaro, Harumachi Nisei, Riteitei Yukimachi, Utamaro II. First a pupil of Harumachi, popular author of the time, later said to have married the widow of Utamaro, callinghimself then Utamaro Nidai. Sopposedly worked with Utamaro on some of his prints. Always a much lesser figure.