Utamaro | Late Summer at Takanawa Sueki Kaoru Artist: Matsuoka Takao 松岡隆夫

Artist: Matsuoka Takao 松岡隆夫

which flourished in Edo in the 1780s under the relatively lax regime of Tanuma Okitsugu

5cm (O-ban)

Each piece was reproduced on an authentic ukiyo-e washi broadsheet using a polychrome offset lithographic printing process

Utamaro | Late Summer at Takanawa Sueki Kaoru Artist: Matsuoka Takao 松岡隆夫Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753 31 October 1806)Date: 1783 (1963 Reprint)Publisher: Unknown (18th C.); Sheisha (1963)Title: Late Summer at TakanawaSeries: Elegant Pleasures: The Scent of Flowers Fry hana no ka asobiMedium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: 25cm x 38cm The Sheisha Masterpieces collection includes what many art historians consider the rarest and most representative works in the history of ukiyo