Three Beauties of the Present Day is a nishiki-e colour woodblock print produced circa 1792–93 by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro. The triangular composition depicts the busts of three celebrity beauties of the time: geisha Tomimoto Toyohina (middle), and teahouse waitresses Takashima Hisa (left) and Naniwa Kita (right), each adorned with an identifying family crest (mon). Subtle differences can be detected in the subjects' faces – a level of individualized realism at the time unusual in ukiyo-e, and a contrast with the stereotyped beauties in earlier masters such as Harunobu and Kiyonaga. The triangular positioning became a vogue in the 1790s. Utamaro produced several other pictures with this arrangement of the same three beauties, and each appeared in numerous other portraits by Utamaro and other artists. Utamaro was the leading ukiyo-e artist in the 1790s in the bijin-ga genre of pictures of female beauties, and was known in particular for his ōkubi-e prints, a style of ukiyo-e that focuses on the heads. The luxurious print was published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō and made with multiple woodblocks—one for each colour—and the background was dusted with muscovite to produce a glimmering effect. This copy of Three Beauties of the Present Day is in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.Painting credit: Kitagawa Utamaro
This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fang_Aili.
This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by Andrew Sawa for her contributions to Wikipedia.
From_Bijin-ga_(Pictures_of_Beautiful_Women),_published_by_Tsutaya_Juzaburo_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by Andrew Sawa for her contributions to Wikipedia.