triptych print
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban triptych
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
This 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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
triptych print was created by Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿).
triptych print depicts figures and bijin-ga.