Making Love
- Date:
- 1753–1806
- Medium:
- color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 36 × 23.8 cm
- Source:
This color woodblock print from Utamaro's Edo-period output depicts a scene of physical intimacy. Prints of this type occupied the continuum between mainstream bijin-ga and the explicitly erotic shunga genre, and many were published and circulated without legal restriction in the relatively permissive environment of the eighteenth-century Edo publishing world. The work reflects Utamaro's engagement across the full spectrum of intimate subject matter.
![A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi") by Kitagawa Utamaro](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ed82be98-8a83-4163-ccc4-e2f7210cce55/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
c. 1794/95
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1793
color woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Making Love was created by Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿) in 1753–1806.
Making Love depicts craftspeople and daily life.
Making Love measures 36 × 23.8 cm (Oban format).
