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Three Beauties of the Present Day

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 29, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 21:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)



Three Beauties of the Present Day (当時三美人) is a nishiki-e colour woodblock print of c. 1792–93 by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753–1806). The triangular composition depicts the busts of three celebrity beauties of the time: geisha Tomimoto Toyohina, and teahouse waitresses Naniwa Kita and Takashima Hisa, each adorned with an identifying family crest. Subtle differences can be detected in the faces of the subjects—a level of individualized realism at the time unusual in ukiyo-e, and a contrast with the stereotyped beauties in earlier masters such as Harunobu and Kiyonaga. The triangular positioning became a vogue in the 1790s. Utamaro produced several other pictures with this arrangement of the same three beauties, and each appeared in numerous other portraits by Utamaro and other artists. Utamaro was the leading ukiyo-e artist in the 1790s in the bijin-ga genre of pictures of female beauties, and was known in particular for his ōkubi-e, which focus on the heads. The luxurious print was published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō and made with multiple woodblocks—one for each colour—and the background was dusted with muscovite to produce a glimmering effect.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Today's featured article/recent TFAs shows most recent artwork is Freedom from Want (painting) for 27 November. But that was art created in 1943 &mdash; and this is from circa 1793.
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 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Helps with WP:WORLDVIEW, related to Japan.
 * Recently promoted WP:FA contribution from, of quite high level of quality.
 * Support as nominator. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:43, 19 November 2014 (UTC)