Fukaku Shinobu Koi - Kitagawa Utamaro - Japanese Edo period Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Art Painting - Framed Prints
Available Options In Framed Prints
Small Framed Print
9x12 inches
Framed With Mat
Compact Framed Print
13x18 inches
Framed With Mat
Medium Framed Print
17x24 inches
Framed With Mat



The woman in Fukaku Shinobu Koi has blackened her teeth with ohaguro, which normally signifies a married woman, but she lacks the shaved eyebrows that would also signify her being married. She is perhaps yet young and recently married. Her ornate Kanzashi hairpin has a flower design on it. She looks down and holds a kiseru tobacco pipe in her right hand. She stares off, her shoulders raised, eyes narrowed, and tiny lips pursed, as if in deep, emotional mid-sigh. Utamaro experimented with line, colour, and printing techniques to bring out subtle differences in the features, expressions, and backdrops of subjects from a wide variety of class and background.