2-361-808 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist, late18th or early 19th century (1956). Self-portrait detail from a woodcut book showing Utamaro (1753-1806) painting a phoenix on the walls of a Yoshiwara house. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese artists of woodblock prints. From the British Museum, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.