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Name: Kitagawa Utamaro
Birth Date: 1753
Death Date: 1806
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: printer, artist

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Biography of Kitagawa Utamaro
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), one of the greatest masters of the Ukiyo-e school of Japanese wood-block printing, excelled in the exotic portrayal of Japanese women, especially those of the Yoshiwara district. Many contemporary critics regard him as the...


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Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿, Kitagawa Utamaro?) (ca. 1753 - 1806) (his name was archaically romanized as Outamaro) was a Japanese printmaker and painter, and is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). He is known...


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The Imprint of Japan; `Utamaro': An Energetic Musical Portrait at the Terrace
02/18/1988: 607 words, approx. 2 pages
And Broadway thought Stephen Sondheim audacious when he wrote a musical about a painting by the French pointillist Georges Seurat. Japanese playwright-director Toshio Fujita is as ambitious as Sondheim: His engaging 2 1/2-hour "Utamaro: The Musical," which opened a two-night run last night at...
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`Utamaro':East Meets West On Stage;The Japanese Musical That Borrows From Broadway
02/14/1988: 1,189 words, approx. 4 pages
In this 10th-anniversary year of the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater-a gift from Japan-a Broadway-style musical comes to us from the Land of the Rising Sun. Based loosely on the life of the 18th-century master woodblock printer Kitagawa Utamaro, the resplendently costumed "Utamaro" is intriguingly...
 


 

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