Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 57306
Okita the Naniwaya Tea-shop Waitress
- Artist / 作者
- Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
- Date / 年代
- 1753
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 403 × 600 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 小春ユイ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
Catalog note / 解説
Okita the Naniwaya Tea-shop Waitress, by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) Utamaro, unrivaled in his ability to depict women, also chose to depict women from all walks of life, not just the pleasure quarters. The artless charms of townswomen became the object of Utamaro's gaze. This print shows Okita, a waitress at a tea and drink shop near the ___ gate at Asakusa. Okita's beauty was discovered in 1793, when she was 14 years old. Tradition has it that she was so popular, the shopkeepers had to throw water on the clamoring crowds that flocked to her tea-shop.
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