# “Hour of the Rat: Mistress,” from the series Women’s Daily Customs (Fuzoku bijin tokei), in Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro designed this in 1790, aged 37. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 1790
- Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (36.5 x 24.4cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1278
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Kitagawa Utamaro](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kitagawa-utamaro), Japanese, c.1753–1806

Utamaro trained with the painter Toriyama Sekien and rose to fame in the 1790s with the support of the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō.

12 works in the collection.

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