大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 10月3日 02時50分

Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro painted this hanging scroll of a courtesan (high ranked sex worker). The fashions and hairstyle of the woman in this powerful and accomplished artwork date it to 1805–1806. As in many of Utamaro’s greatest works, she is shown in a private moment – intently reading a letter, possibly from her suitor. Courtesans were expected to provide glamorous and cultivated company, as well as sexual services, to wealthy clients. Their lives could be harsh and this exploitation was only rarely alluded to in Utamaro’s art, but it was significant at the time that it was represented at all.
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