Utamaro: Colour Prints and Paintings Arts & Photography entitled Kitaro of the Graveyard

entitled Kitaro of the Graveyard

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Publisher: Western Publishing Company

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Utamaro: Colour Prints and Paintings Arts & Photography entitled Kitaro of the GraveyardUtamaro is one of the most significant figures in the history of Japanese art, and one who has had an incalculable influence on Western artists. Born in 1753, he lived all his life in Edo, a central figure in a culture that was of the people rather than the aristocracy, and whose typical forms of expression were the Kabuki plays, light novelettes, comic verse and colour woodcuts. He spans a period during which each of these arts was brought to its