This trend furthered the genre of bijin-ga (‘pictures of beautiful people’), established by the late-18th century masters Kitagawa Utamaro and Torii Kiyonaga, by featuring women of the modern era.
This trend furthered the genre of bijin-ga (‘pictures of beautiful people’), established by the late-18th century masters Kitagawa Utamaro and Torii Kiyonaga, by featuring women of the modern era.