You can make 152 anagrams from letters in Utamaro (aamortu).
To-day the poorer examples of Utamaro's work are still readily procurable.
Tamagawa Shucho was a rare pupil of Utamaro who worked about 1790 to 1810.
Utamaro led in the rush to gratify this craving; and even the aristocratic Yeishi was unable to resist the general decline.
This was the time when Utamaro also suffered at their hands.
Bunro, some of whose work is fine, was a rare imitator of Utamaro.
But with patience and judgment the collector may still obtain now and then a fine specimen of Utamaro's work.
When Utamaro died, in 1806, the great days of the figure-print were ended.
Notwithstanding her western garb, she resembled a print of Utamaro.
It was by his portraits of women that Utamaro won his great fame.
Shunsho was a great sinner in this respect; so also were Utamaro and Toyokuni.
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