Utamaro's pictures of abalone divers
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Utamaro's pictures of abalone divers
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The Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro made a number of prints depicting ama divers—women whose work is to dive for shellfish or pearls—catching haliotis abalone sea snails. Amongst the prints are the first print in the erotic book Utamakura (1788); two triptychs called Awabi-tori, one from c. 1788–90 and the other from c. 1797–98; and the hexaptych Enoshima Yūryō Awabi-tori no Zu of c. 1804–06. Utamaro's heir Utamaro II published the triptych Enoshima Awabi-ryō no Zu in the early 19th cen
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Japanese prints
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2024-04-06T14:32:59Z
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