Performers in Korean Guise, from the series Women Geisha at the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival: Second Program
- Name
- Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 (Artist)
- Title
- Performers in Korean Guise, from the series Women Geisha at the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival: Second Program
- Other Titles
- Seijin 唐人, from the series Seiro niwaka onna geisha: Ni no kawari 青楼仁和嘉女芸者 二の替り
- Abstract
- This image illustrates a group of women performers in Korean guise, playing musical instruments during the Niwaka festival of the Yoshiwara, the pleasure quarters of Edo. Utamaro created numerous other prints with women geisha, under various guises, performing and parading at this festival.
- Accession Number
- C00.1755.044
- Format
- prints
- Culture
- Japanese (culture or style)
- Genre
- Figures (representations)
- Origin Information
- Edo (Tokyo), Japan
- Date
- ca. 1800
- Physical Description
- 1 print ; sheet 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (36.1 x 24.1 cm)
- Note (Period)
- Edo period
- Note (Medium/support)
- Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Note (Inscriptions/signatures)
- Upper right: Seiro niwaka onna geisha 青楼仁和嘉女芸者; ni no kawari 二の替り; seijin 唐人. Lower left: Utamaro-hitsu.
- Note (Ownership)
- The Stebbins Memorial Collection
- Note
- The artist is also known as Utamaro I. His prints of beautiful women and of erotica became very popular and dominated the ukiyo-e market in the 1790s and 1800s. He created a feminine ideal characterized by elongated faces and sensual poses.
- Library Location
- Art Properties, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 12004937
- Copyright Status
- No Copyright - United States
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-4xkz-4d31