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Utamaro II, artist
Japanese, active 1831
[Chef preparing a bonito for a woman with a porcelain dish], 1806 - 1810
color woodcut
30.4 x 23.2 cm (image)

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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.