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Beauties as Artisans in a Printer's Studio, “Artisans” (Shokunin), from the series An Up-to-Date Parody of the Four Classes (Imayō mitate shi-nō-kō-shō)
Utagawa Kunisada Japanese
Not on view
To represent artisans, one of the four classes (along with warriors, farmers, and merchants) of the Edo period, Kunisada replaced the men more typical of the social category with women, and illustrated the interior of a woodblock printer’s studio. The figure at a table on the right carves fine lines into a woodblock through a sheet of paper bearing an artist’s preparatory drawing.
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