Open AccessSobre o poder político de pinturas-de-figuras-bonitas de Kitagawa Utamaro
Author(s) -
Madaletsuko Hashimoto Cordaro
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
estudos japoneses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-7125
pISSN - 1413-8298
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2447-7125.v0i24p83-90
Subject(s) - painting , art , representation (politics) , sight , order (exchange) , humanities , portrait , politics , art history , visual arts , political science , law , business , physics , finance , astronomy
Kitagawa Utamaro is famous for his beauties prints, bijinga, specially in facial portraitsôkubi-e (“big neck paintings”)depicted individually or in group. At first sightthis kind of representation do not present any political content and today they are reproduced for ornamental purposessuch as in public spaces (restaurants, embassies) or in everyday objects (walletsscarvesmemos and diaries) that aim to represent Japanese singularities. The present communication aims to question this posthumous reception asfollowing 1790 and 1796 shogunal editsthe publication of one-page prints which contained the represented women names 一 if they were not yüjo - was prohibited. Utamaro series of beauties are analysed from the point-of-view of his time reception and the visual resources the painter recurred in order to run away from shogunal prohibitions.