"Three Beauties of Kansei" by Utamaro is his very famous painting. The triangular composition depicts the busts of three celebrity beauties of the time: Geisha Tomimoto Toyohina, and teahouse waitresses Naniwa Kita and Takashima Hisa. The three models in three Beauties of the present Day were frequent subjects of Utamaro's portraiture. Each figure in the work is adorned with an identifying family crest. The portraits are idealized, and at first glance, their faces seem similar, but subtle differences in their features and expressions can be detected—a level of realism at the time unusual in ukiyo-e, and a contrast with the stereotyped beauties in earlier masters such as Harunobu and Kiyonaga.
About the Canvas Prints
Three Beauties Of The Kansei by Kitagawa Utamaro. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.