Utamaro: The Beauty

This is a glamorous collection of 100 masterful paintings of beautiful women by the extraordinary ukiyo-e painter Utamaro. It contains 10 nikuhitsu original drawings, 40 ukiyo-e paintings, and 50 shunga erotic paintings, bringing the daytime face and nighttime face of Utamaro together in a single book. The book features a clasped binding that is nearly an artwork in itself.