Japanese Print "The Lovers Mikkatsu and Akane-ya Hanschichi" by Kitagawa Utamaro
Artist:Kitagawa Utamaro
Title:The Lovers Mikkatsu and Akane-ya Hanschichi
Date:1798
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Source:Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
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Description:
This Mikatsu & Hanshichi print is one of a set of twenty-four published in 1797-98, of which fifteen have been identified. Each print shows a young woman with her lover in some intimate moment. Mikatsu, seen in three-quarter length, looms over Hanshichi, below & slightly behind her. Her head is inclined demurely & her fingers modestly interlocked. Hanshichi seems lost in thought.