Beauty Looking at Her Image in a Mirror

ca. 1840

Not on view

Sadakage, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, worked first in Edo and later in Osaka. He specialized in the theme of graceful women. Here, a woman is readjusting her coiffure after meeting a customer.

The suggestive spring poem by Rōgatsuan Baiei in the long, rectangular label at the left is entitled "Mokuboji," after a temple whose grounds are famous both for the grave of the abducted child Umewakamaru from the Noh play Sumidagawa and for their cherry blossoms and willow trees.

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Title: Beauty Looking at Her Image in a Mirror
Artist: Utagawa Sadakage (Japanese, active mid-19th century)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: ca. 1840
Culture: Japan
Medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 7 1/8 in. (20.5 x 18.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
Object Number: JP1432
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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