triptych print
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban triptych
- Source:
- British Museum
This [triptych](/glossary/triptych) woodblock print is catalogued without a descriptive title, classified by format alone. Triptychs (three-sheet compositions) were among the most ambitious formats in Utamaro's output, requiring the coordination of figures, space, and color across three separate sheets printed to align when displayed together. Without preserved title information, the work's subject can only be understood from the visual composition itself.
![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
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
triptych print was created by Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿).
triptych print depicts figures and bijin-ga.
