Eight Views of Famous Teahouse Beauties (Meisho koshikake hakkei)

Kitagawa Utamaro Collection

Eight Views of Tea Stalls in Celebrated Places / Eight Views of Famous Teahouse Beauties / Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Famous Places

Size: Approx Oban tate-e: 14½ x 9 5/8in. (36.9 x 25.3cm.)

Circa: 1795/96

The Beauty Okita Looking into a Mirror

 A beauty sipping from a stemmed goblet (giyaman)
Signed in left corner: Utamaro hitsu and published by Ezakiya Kichibei

Bamboo Blind
Oseyo of the Hiranoya Tea House

"FUTOKORODE"
A Woman warming her hands Inside the Kimono

Woman holding a tea cup

Woman combing hair

Signed: Utamaro hitsu (center right)

Three Beauties

Art of Japan: The Many Worlds of Ukiyo-e Prints

Museum of Fine Arts - Boston

Escape to a tantalizing afternoon of beauty and pleasure found within the MFA's world-renowned collection of color woodblock prints. This urban dream of a "floating world," far away from responsibility and cares, featured such subjects as celebrity actors, courtesans, and dream-like landscapes.

Sarah Thompson, assistant curator, Japanese Prints April 3, 2013

Hokusai: The End of an Era

Museum of Fine Art Boston - Video

Hokusai died in 1849, just four years before the opening of Japanese ports to the West dramatically altered Japanese culture. See how Hokusai’s art perspicaciously hinted of things to come, including a fascination with technology, curiosity about the outside world, and growing sense of Japan as a nation. Sarah Thompson, assistant curator, Japanese Prints; curator, “Hokusai”