Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery - Utamaro Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1808) is regarded as one of the foremost painters of beauty, or the bijinga genre. (I recently saw that 1946 classic film Utamaro and his 5 Women , the title of which is a play on the name of his triptych Hideyoshi and his 5 Concubines , the publication of which landed him in jail in 1805. The event figures prominently in the film.) ...