Three Beauties of the Present Day

Painting · c. 1793 · Edo (Tokyo) · Asia

Large bust portraits of real townswomen: Utamaro gave each famous beauty an individual face

Author: Kitagawa Utamaro
Style: Ukiyo-e — Pictures of the floating world: actors, beauties and views of Edo in mass-printed colour woodblocks
Century: 18th century

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