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Featured on PDR in the collection “The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

Edo-era prints of a loving demon with adopted or biological son.

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Yamauba Blackening her Teeth, with Kintarō

Artist

Date

ca. 1795


Source

The Metropolitan Museum

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Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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No Additional Rights

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Image Size

1291 x 1911


Styles

  • Woodblock

Tags

  • childhood
  • witches
  • motherhood
  • japan
  • demons
  • makeup
  • love
  • mirrors
  • child

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