两个女人 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	两个女人
品名（英）	Two Women
入馆年号	1936年，JP2735
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Kitagawa Utamaro【1754 至 1806】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1780 - 公元 1800
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	15 3/8 x 10 1/8 英寸 (39.1 x 25.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	乌塔马洛将这两位美女放在了一个令人难忘的弯曲对角线之上。图像在右侧裁剪，而两个图像都向下看向左角。在传统的水墨画中，消极和积极是相互对立的，在这里，艺术家不仅将形式本身与空旷的地面对立起来，还将无轮廓、苍白的脸和分开的红唇与充满活力的长袍和黑色头发对立起来江户时代后期宽obi的佩戴改变了kosode的装饰方式。当使用大型设计时，它们现在被放在下摆和袖子末端。小型可反转的整体图案也很流行，比如这幅版画中的水和竹子的模板设计。如图所示，黑暗地面上的白色ikat图案也很普遍。它是一种时尚的"平民"设计，改编自乡村图案，但通常用奢华的织物编织，比如这里可能拍摄的非常精细的苎麻布。苎麻是一种能产生非常有光泽的白色纤维的植物，这些纤维经过精细的切割和手工连接后，被用来生产一种高质量的劳动密集型纺织品，称为jōfu。
介绍（英）	Utamaro has set these two beauties one above the other in an unforgettable curved diagonal. The image is cropped at the right, while both look down toward the left corner. As in traditional ink painting, where negative and positive are played off against each other, here the artist has placed in opposition not only the forms themselves against the empty ground, but also the contourless, whitened faces and parted red lips against the vibrant fabric of robes and black hair. The wearing of wide obi in the late Edo period changed the way kosode were decorated. When large-scale designs were used, they were now placed on hems and the ends of sleeves. Small invertible overall patterns also became popular, such as the stencilled design of water and bamboo in this print. White ikat patterns on a dark ground, as seen here, were also prevalent. A stylish "commoner's" design, it was adapted from a rustic pattern but often woven in luxury fabrics, such as the very fine ramie cloth that may be pictured here. Ramie is a plant that yields very lustrous white fibers, which, when split very finely and joined by hand, were used to produce a high-quality, labor-intensive textile termed jōfu.