# Women Grating Radish for Sashimi, in Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro designed this in about 1798–99, aged about 45. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1798–99
- Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1122
- 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.

## Walk on

- [Kitagawa Utamaro's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-kitagawa-utamaro?hang=749) (8 works)
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