Tarozuki
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
The term "tarozuki" refers to a male character type — the naive or simple-minded young man — suggesting this print may depict a narrative scene or a pairing between characters. Utamaro occasionally worked in a comic vein, using stock character types from popular culture and theater, and the title suggests this work participates in that tradition rather than in the purely aesthetic bijin-ga mode.
![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
Tarozuki was created by Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿).
Tarozuki depicts figures and daily life.
