Beauties and Actors

Kitagawa Utamaro

Reflective Love

c. 1793/94

Color woodblock print, 37.7 × 24.8 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago

A woman rests her chin on her hand and gazes past us, lost in thought.

• From the series Anthology of Poems: The Love Section.
• The plain pale ground isolates her face and hand.
• Its publisher, Tsutaya Jūzaburō, also issued Utamaro's insect book.

Image: Art Institute of Chicago open access · CC0