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148 * on the left a woman half undressed, her foot playing in the water with fish swimming about it; behind her a woman standing; to the right is one wringing water out of her clothes, and beside her a companion kneeling by a basket. The half-clad figures, which Goncourt rightly calls un peu mannequinèes, are drawn with uncommon precision; the outlines of the nude are printed in a dark reddish brown.
 * Female divers in junks.

Utamaro also published a countless number of series, of which the following may be mentioned:—


 * Geishas celebrating the Niwaka Festival, 6 sheets (dating from the seventies?).
 * Signboards of the most celebrated saké-houses, represented by women who have at their feet purple mats and stand out against the yellow background; 6 sheets, about 1790.
 * The Kamuros of the Yoshiwara, 6 sheets, also a continuation in 7 sheets.
 * Courtesans and geishas compared with flowers.
 * The five festal days.
 * The six arms of the Tamagawa River, women on undulating ground; at the top views on fans.
 * The six views of the Tamagawa River, women promenading.
 * Women compared with landscapes in the vicinity of the Yoshiwara, 8 sheets.
 * The six poetesses.
 * Courtesans compared with the six poets.
 * The story of the fair Osomi and the clerk Hisamatsu.
 * Examples of beautiful women typifying the seven-fold fortune, the gods of fortune each represented by a female figure in a circular frame.
 * Half-length figures on a mica ground, two series of ten leaves each (illustrated in Kurth, pl. 17, a girl before a mirror).
 * Half-length figures of women in pairs, several series; among them one representing the four seasons, and another of the same kind representing the twelve hours of the day.
 * Large heads, more than a hundred sheets.
 * Bijin ichisai goyusan tsugi, the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido