Utamaro is one of the most significant figures in the history of
Japanese art, and one who has had an incalculable influence on Western
artists. Born in 1753, he lived all his life in Edo, a central figure in
a culture that was of the people rather than the aristocracy, and whose
typical forms of expression were the Kabuki plays, light novelettes,
comic verse and colour-woodcuts.
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