Utamaro, Kitagawa (1750-1806). Color Woodblock

[Japanese Print]. Utamaro, Kitagawa (1750-1806). Color woodblocks, oban. 2 panels, one of series of 12 panels on silkworm industry, oban (15 x 10), c.1802. Left panel: Three ladies in mock work clothes with trays of enlarged silk-worm cocoons. This edition missing legend in top colored area. Top right banner missing about half of the characters (edge reinforced, as is lower left corner), some soil and rubbing, artist's signature bottom center, hinged to mat at top. Right panel: 4 women with tall baskets filled with mulberry leaves, 1 woman scattering some down on mat covered with silk worms. Rubbed and soiled, two small areas of right edge reinforced where loss, hinged to mat at top, artist's later signature lower right, rich colors now muted.

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