Kitagawa Utamaro was a renowned Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints and his contribution to the ukiyo-e art movement. View Kitagawa Utamaro’s 1,997 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth ...

A recently discovered painting by Kitagawa Utamaro (around 1753-1806) is due to go on show for the first time this week at the British Museum. The hanging scroll from around 1805-06 shows a ...

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), the mystery man, was considered one of the foremost practitioners of ukiyo-e, paintings that portray a “floating world” of pleasure.

Kitagawa Utamaro (?–1806) was undoubtedly Japan’s greatest artist of bijinga (pictures of beautiful women) in the ukiyo-e genre, but like many working in ukiyo-e, it took some time for him to ...

For the first time in nearly 140 years, three paintings by the legendary but mysterious Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) have been reunited at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler ...

The rediscovered "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" portrait created by Kitagawa Utamaro is seen at the Tokyo National Museum in the capital's Taito Ward on May 12, 2025.

An exhibition of three large-scale paintings long attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro highlights the controversy over the works’ authorship.

One of Japan’s highly regarded ukiyo-e, or floating world, artists, Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753-1806), is the subject of three successive shows centered on three unusual works: wall-size paintings ...

Kitagawa Utamaro: 'Lovers' (from Uta makura / The Poem of the Pillow), British Museum "Sex, in so far as it is not a purely physiological reproductive mechanism, lies in the domain of aesthetics ...