Reading Woman by Utamaro Cushion

Enjoy this reproduction of the woodblock print by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro. He is one of the most highly regarded practitioners of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints, especially for his portraits of beautiful women, or bijin-ga. Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. The Floating World store on Zazzle painstakingly restores these historical treasures to their true colours and fixes basic aging issues. Paper texture and colour are maintained because it reveals the aged beauty of these master works of art.