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Portrait or photograph of Kitagawa Utamaro: Shizuuta de Tamaya Une des oeuvres de la série de peintures représentant des courtisanes de grande beauté. Tamaya ét

Virtual Memorial

Kitagawa Utamaro

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Kitagawa Utamaro, remembered for Ukiyo-e portraits, Edo printmaking, Japanese art history.

c. 1753 - 1806Tokyo, Japan
Portrait or photograph of Kitagawa Utamaro: Deux femmes préparant le Sashimi Oeuvre de Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) peinture école ukiyo-e / image du monde flo
Deux femmes préparant le Sashimi Oeuvre de Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) peinture école ukiyo-e / image du monde flottant Période d'Edo XVIIIème siècle Notice de l'oeuvre dans la b Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, Deux femmes préparant le Sashimi de K. Utamaro (musée national de Tokyo), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Kitagawa Utamaro Is Remembered

Kitagawa Utamaro is remembered for ukiyo-e portraits, edo printmaking, japanese art history. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Kitagawa Utamaro.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Tokyo, Japan is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Kitagawa Utamaro's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Portrait or photograph of Kitagawa Utamaro: Les courtisanes Komurazaki et Hanamurazaki de la maison Tamaya Une des oeuvres de la série de peintures représentant

Les courtisanes Komurazaki et Hanamurazaki de la maison Tamaya Une des oeuvres de la série de peintures représentant des courtisanes de grande beauté. Tamaya était l'une des maison

Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/48756384036/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Memorial or place connected to Kitagawa Utamaro: Full-colour portrait print of the geisha Tomimoto Toyohina by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro

Full-colour portrait print of the geisha Tomimoto Toyohina by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Work or historical image connected to Kitagawa Utamaro: Oiran Hanaogi, by Utamaro (ca. 1794). Woodcut print has a mica background.

Oiran Hanaogi, by Utamaro (ca. 1794). Woodcut print has a mica background.

Kitagawa Utamaro, Own work, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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