風俗美人時計 子ノ刻 妾|Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child
Kitagawa Utamaro
1790 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art
Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the most prolific artists of the bijin genre that portrays beautiful women, made many images of mothers and children. Here, to illustrate the hour of midnight, Utamaro chose a mother who sleepily emerges from a mosquito net to attend to her child, who rubs the sleep from his eyes. The personal, everyday nature of the subject exemplifies the new interest in the individual that emerged during the mid- to late Edo period.
- Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Date
- 1790
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1922
