A common subject for the Japanese woodblock art of Utamaro Kitagawa is that of a Japanese woman breastfeeding her infant child.

Here is one example of that topic of the bonding between mother and child.

An 8.5×11″ Photo Print of this artwork is available on eBay. Click the photo or the link below to check it out on eBay:

Yamauba no Chichi o Suh Kintaro by Utamaro Kitagawa (1753-1806), a print of a traditional Japanese mother, Yamauba, breastfeeding her infant son, Kintaro.

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Utamaro Kitagawa was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e “large-headed pictures of beautiful women” of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Little is known of Utamaro’s life. His work began to appear in the 1770s, and he rose to prominence in the early 1790s with his portraits of beauties with exaggerated, elongated features. He produced over 2000 known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime. from Wikipedia.

Making a woodblock or woodcut print is the art of gauging out a design onto a block of wood, then covering the wood with ink and pressing the block onto paper to make a print.